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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+# quick and dirty interface to https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell
+
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+
+if (not @ARGV) {
+    print "Usage: trans [options] [source]:[targets] <word or phrase>\n";
+    exit;
+}
+
+my $args = quotemeta "@ARGV";
+$args =~ s/\\([ :-])/$1/g;
+$args =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
+
+my $opts = '-j';
+$opts .= ' -b' unless $args =~ /^-/;
+
+my $result = `trans $opts $args`;
+
+$result =~ s/\e\[\d+m//g;
+
+print "$result\n";