#!/bin/bash
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#  Web based translator using Babelfish http://babelfish.altavista.com/
#  Language strings:
#  en_zh - English to Chinese
#  en_fr - English to French
#  en_de - English to German
#  en_it - English to Italian
#  en_ja - English to Japanese
#  en_ko - English to Korean
#  en_pt - English to Portuguese
#  en_es - English to Spanish
#  zh_en - Chinese to English
#  fr_en - French to English
#  fr_de - French to German
#  de_en - German to English
#  de_fr - German to French
#  it_en - Italian to English
#  ja_en - Japanese to English
#  ko_en - Korean to English
#  pt_en - Portuguese to English
#  ru_en - Russian to English
#  es_en - Spanish to English

read -p "Enter a sentence: " sentence
s1=`echo $sentence | sed 's/ /+/g'`
read -p "enter a language: " language
#get translation and put in temp file
wget -O test "http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr?urltext=$s1&lp=$language&doit=done" 2> /dev/null
echo -n "$sentence translates to: "
#extract output from response
grep "name=\"q\"" test | cut -c 56-