lu

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lu

lu is a terminal client for Yandex.Dictionary and Yandex.Translate services.

In order to use it please set the LU_YANDEX_DICTIONARY_API_KEY and LU_YANDEX_TRANSLATE_API_KEY environment variables. The corresponding API keys can be obtained at https://api.yandex.ru

Features

• gets stuff to translate from command line arguments, from files (one lookup per line) or interactively from STDIN
• multiple languages to translate to
• outputs translation to STDOUT, text or html files.
• output can be sorted alphabetically by request strings
• default languages to translate from and to can be specified using environment variables

Install

You can build lu from source using the go get -u github.com/dafanasev/lu command or download binaries from https://github.com/dafanasev/lu/releases

Usage

lu [OPTIONS]

Application Options:
  -f, --from=      language to translate from [$LU_DEFAULT_FROM_LANG]
  -t, --to=        languages to translate to [$LU_DEFAULT_TO_LANGS]
  -i, --source=    source file name
  -o, --output=    destination file name
  -s, --sort       sort alphabetically
  -l, --languages  show supported languages
  -v, --version    show version

Help Options:
  -h, --help       Show this help message

The $LU_DEFAULT_TO_LANGS environment variable can be used to specify a list of destination languages, with the colon used as separator, e.g. ru:it:de

Examples

$ lu -fen -tde -i in.txt -o out.txt

translates stuff from in.txt from english to german and writes translations to out.txt

$ lu -fen -tru -tit -tde -i in.txt

translates stuff from in.txt from english to russian, italian and german writes translations to STDOUT

$ lu -i in.txt -o out.html

translates stuff from in.txt using default languages specified in the $LU_DEFAULT_FROM_LANG and $LU_DEFAULT_TO_LANGS environment variables and writes translations to out.html

$ lu -o out.html -s

translates stuff from STDIN and writes translations to STDOUT AND out.html sorted by requests phrases

$ lu

translates stuff from STDIN using default languages and writes translations to STDOUT