I'm not sure if it's been put in but what about dictd?
aptitude install dict-freedict-eng-spa dict dictd
then from the command line:
dict -d fd-eng-spa [word] 
and it will return the word you wanted, found in the spanish dictionary...


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On Sun November 9 2008 09:29:03 pm jdawg wrote:
> Tuna wrote:
> >> Kurt Granroth wrote:
> >>> jdawg wrote:
> >>>> I am wanting to do a quick way to get english-spanish/spanish-english
> >>>> translation ultimately from the command line.
> >>>>
> >>>> As a first step, I tried this:
> >>>> wget 'http://translate.google.com/translate_t#es|en|pavimentado'
> >>>>
> >>>> and I got this back:
> >>>> ---------- error -----------
> >>>> --08:49:36--  http://translate.google.com/translate_t
> >>>>            => `translate_t'
> >>>> Resolving translate.google.com... 74.125.95.113, 74.125.95.100,
> >>>> 74.125.95.101, ...
> >>>> Connecting to translate.google.com|74.125.95.113|:80... connected.
> >>>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
> >>>> 08:49:41 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
> >>>> ---------- end of error ----------
> >>>>
> >>>> So does anyone know a site where I can do this kind of thing. all the
> >>>> ones I have found so far, won't let you do it.
> >>>
> >>> The output for that would be tricky to handle, even if it did work,
> >>> since that URL returns a fully formatted HTML page.  You would have to
> >>> do a lot of HTML parsing from the command line.
> >>>
> >>> A far better route would be to use the Google API.
> >>>
> >>> http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/
> >>>
> >>> The docs they have there are all Javascript specific, but at the core,
> >>> it's all just JSON formatted requests and responses over HTTP.  'wget'
> >>> and 'sed' should be able to make quick work of them.  If not, maybe you
> >>> could create a couple line perl wrapper?
> >>>
> >>> Here's some example uses of the Google API (not the language one, but
> >>> the concept is identical) in other languages:
> >>>
> >>> http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/index.html#fonje_s
> >>>nippets
> >>
> >> And, to follow up to myself, here is an example using curl and sed.
> >> wget works just as well... I used curl here only because it's one
> >> command line option easier to output to stdout:
> >>
> >> $ curl --silent
> >> "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=hel
> >>lo&langpair=en%7Ces"
> >>
> >> | sed -e 's,^.*translatedText":",,g' -e 's,"}.*$,,g'
> >>
> >> hola
> >>
> >> Kurt
> >
> > My friend wrote a python script that does all this. Some IRC'ers in here
> > will remember bobsalad, he uses this script now.
> >
> > http://www.coderprofile.com/networks/source-codes/521/google-translator-s
> >cript
> >
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> haven't had much to do with python yet (turned off by the block
> indentation thing), mostly a perl and bash guy.
> but I thank you for the url of above. this is what I really hoped for.
>
> something like this works just fine
> i will write my own bash script to translate all kinds of text using
> this technique.
>
> it works as expected in the other direction:
>
> curl --silent
> "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=pavime
>ntada%20primario&langpair=es%7Cen"
>
> jerry