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A facility for storing useful scripts for general use?

Today I found two useful scripts on the first page of "Latest posts". One invoked Google Translate to translate strings from the command line (the actual script was in a linked blog), and the other was a wrapper for a fingerprint reader to turn it into a screen-unlocker. Sadly, these will gradually disappear from sight as more threads are added.

It would be nice to have a little repository where such gems can be stored.

I'd make a page on the horribly-underused LQ Wiki and link to them there.

@hazel
Most basic little translator in bash. Needs curl. You could also use wget.

trans.sh

Code:

#!/usr/bin/bash



agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:110.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0"



echo -e "\nGoogle Translator\n"

echo -e "For language abbreviations look at: "

echo -e "https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/languages\n"



read -p "Enter input language: " inLang

read -p "Enter output language: " outLang



read -p "Enter phrase to translate from "$inLang" to "$outLang" :" phrase



phrase=${phrase// /+}



url="http://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?client=gtx&sl=${inLang}&tl=${outLang}&dt=t&q=${phrase}"



echo -e "\nThis is the google api url: "$url"\n"



curl -A "$agent" "$url"

Example usage:

Code:

bash ./trans.sh



Google Translator



For language abbreviations look at: 

https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/languages



Enter input language: de

Enter output language: en

Enter phrase to translate from de to en :Ich habe Probleme mit dem Programm awk, um den zweiten Treffer eines Strings auszugeben



This is the google api url: http://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?client=gtx&sl=de&tl=en&dt=t&q=Ich+habe+Probleme+mit+dem+Programm+awk,+um+den+zweiten+Treffer+eines+Strings+auszugeben



[[["I'm having trouble using the awk program to print the second match of a string","Ich habe Probleme mit dem Programm awk, um den zweiten Treffer eines Strings auszugeben",null,null,3,null,null,[[]],[[["1fdac2347d4ad2bfc63cca9b4fbecbbb","de_en_2022q1.md"]]

Quote:

Originally Posted by hazel (Post 6425594)

It would be nice to have a little repository where such gems can be stored.

Also known as a git repository.