How can I translate in the CLI an English word into a German one?

Question

I want to write a Script that picks a random English word from /usr/share/dict/words, translates it into German, display both of them for a certain amount of time and repeat the process. I only know the beginning part and do not know how to use a word to word translation in the shell:

watch -n5 sh -c 'cat /usr/share/dict/words | shuf -n1 | .....'

A.B. · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-30T18:17:36.520

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Download Translate Shell

cd
wget https://github.com/soimort/google-translate-cli/archive/master.tar.gz
tar -xvf master.tar.gz
cd google-translate-cli-master/

Install

use make
```
sudo make install
```
OR
use checkinstall
```
sudo apt-get install checkinstall
sudo checkinstall
```
If you see this: 3 - Version: [ master ]then
- Press 3
- Enter a number, e.g. 20150330
- Press Return

Translate with

cat /usr/share/dict/words | shuf -n1 | tee >( xargs -0 trs {=de} | xargs echo) | xargs -0 echo -n

Your command

watch -n5 'bash -c "cat /usr/share/dict/words | shuf -n1 | tee >( xargs -0 trs {=de} | xargs echo) | xargs -0 echo -n"'

edited Mar 30 '15 at 18:17

answered Mar 30 '15 at 15:15

A.B.

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why do you use the -0 option ? – Abdul Al Hazred Mar 30 '15 at 17:30
what is the purpose of this >(......) structure ? – Abdul Al Hazred Mar 30 '15 at 17:32
xargs: unmatched single quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option – A.B. Mar 30 '15 at 17:35
tee is used to split the output of a program – A.B. Mar 30 '15 at 17:38
i know tee but i do not know the >(.....) structure. I have copied your code into the shell, there must be somewhere bug, because the output shows me two lines of the same german word. – Abdul Al Hazred Mar 30 '15 at 17:44
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Sorry, I had tested it with `zsh`. Now it should work with `bash`. – A.B. Mar 30 '15 at 18:03

How can I translate in the CLI an English word into a German one?

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