diff --git a/tools/unix/translate.awk b/tools/unix/translate.awk
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+#!/usr/bin/env gawk -f
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
+# <mort.yao@gmail.com> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you
+# can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
+# this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return Mort Yao
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+BEGIN {
+    if (ARGC < 2) {
+        help()
+        exit
+    }
+    
+    RS = ORS = "\r\n"
+    FS = OFS = "\n"
+    httpHost = "translate.google.com"
+    httpPort = 80
+    httpService = "/inet/tcp/0/" httpHost "/" httpPort
+    percentEncoding["\n"]      = "%0A"
+    percentEncoding[" "]       = "%20"
+    percentEncoding["\""]      = "%22"
+    percentEncoding["&"]       = "%26"
+    
+    match(ARGV[1], /{.*=.*}/)
+    if (RSTART) {
+        match(ARGV[1], /{.*=/)
+        sl = substr(ARGV[1], RSTART + 1, RLENGTH - 2)
+        if (sl == "") sl = "auto"
+        
+        match(ARGV[1], /=.*}/)
+        split(substr(ARGV[1], RSTART + 1, RLENGTH - 2), tls, "+")
+        if (length(tls) == 0) tls[1] = ""
+        
+        text_p = 1
+    } else {
+        sl = tls[1] = "auto"
+        text_p = 0
+    }
+    
+    while (ARGV[++text_p]) {
+        $0 = ""
+        getline < ARGV[text_p]
+        if (NF)
+            split($0, texts)
+        else
+            split(ARGV[text_p], texts)
+        n = length(texts)
+        
+        for (tls_i = 1; tls_i <= length(tls); tls_i++) {
+            tl = ((tls[tls_i] == "") ? "auto" : tls[tls_i])
+            tl = substr(tl, 1 + (showPhonetically = index(tl, "@")))
+            
+            for (texts_i = 1; texts_i <= n; texts_i++) {
+                text = texts[texts_i]
+                for (key in percentEncoding)
+                    gsub(key, percentEncoding[key], text)
+                
+                url = "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8" \
+                    "&sl=" sl "&tl=" tl "&text=" text
+                
+                print "GET " url |& httpService
+                while ((httpService |& getline) > 0)
+                    content = $0
+                close(httpService)
+                
+                translation = phonetics = ""
+                match(content, /\]\]/)
+                s0 = substr(content, 3, RSTART - 2)
+                while (s0 != "") {
+                    match(s0, /\[[^\]]*\]/)
+                    t0 = substr(s0, RSTART + 1, RLENGTH - 2)
+                    s0 = substr(s0, RLENGTH + 2)
+                    
+                    for (i = 0; t0 != ""; i++) {
+                        match(t0, /[^\\]","/)
+                        f[i] = substr(t0, 2, RSTART - 1)
+                        t0 = substr(t0, RSTART + 3)
+                    }
+                    
+                    translation = translation f[0]
+                    phonetics = phonetics ((f[2] != "") ? (f[2] " ") : f[0])
+                }
+                
+                output = showPhonetically ? phonetics : translation
+                output = gensub(/\\( |\\|\")/, "\\1", "g", output)
+                output = gensub(/\\n/, "\n", "g", output)
+                output = gensub(/(\") /, "\\1", "g", output)
+                output = gensub(/ ('|;|:|\.|\,|\!|\?)/, "\\1", "g", output)
+                printf output "\n"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+function help() {
+    print "Usage: translate {[SL]=[TL]} TEXT|TEXT_FILENAME"
+    print "       translate {[SL]=[TL1]+[TL2]+...} TEXT|TEXT_FILENAME"
+    print "       translate TEXT1 TEXT2 ..."
+    print
+    print "TEXT: Source text (The text to be translated)"
+    print "      Can also be the filename of a plain text file."
+    print "  SL: Source language (The language of the source text)"
+    print "  TL: Target language (The language to translate the source text into)"
+    print "      Language codes as listed here:"
+    print "    * http://developers.google.com/translate/v2/using_rest#language-params"
+    print "      Ignore the code where you want the system to identify it for you."
+    print "      Prefix the code with an ampersat @ to show the result phonetically."
+}
diff --git a/tools/unix/translate_categories.sh b/tools/unix/translate_categories.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+
+${DIR}/translate.awk {en=en+ru+uk+de+fr+it+es+ko+ja+cs+nl+zh-TW+pl+pt+hu} "$1"
diff --git a/tools/unix/translate_guides.sh b/tools/unix/translate_guides.sh
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+++ b/tools/unix/translate_guides.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+
+${DIR}/translate.awk {en=en+nl+uk+zh-TW+cs+fr+it+ja+ko+pt+es+pl+de+ru} "$1"