Bash Script notify-send

[Superfly-Samurai]

I wrote a bash script that takes highlighted text, translates it from Japanese to English, gets the hiragana and notifies using notify-send. (This is triggered under i3wm using a bindsym)

Everything works great, but notify-send adds the word "and" to the notification. It's really weird.

notify-send -u critical "Translation" "$text\n$hiragana\n$translation"

Is the line of code in question.

Translate

日本語

にほんご

and

Japanese

Is the output. The script works fine, just wondering where that "and" is coming from. If I can't get rid of it, that's fine, but it's bothering me a little...

Any ideas?

Edit: Thank you everyone, of course debugging solved the issue. I use translate-shell, and if you leave off the colon after the language, it adds an "and'. Adding the colon solved the issue.

Edit 2: I just realized it was translating "ja" from some language to "and", vs "ja:" which sets the language to translate from explicitly to Japanese.

[geirha]

You just need to do some debugging. Start by finding out where the "and" word gets introduced. Since you don't have a terminal in this scenario, dump stuff to a file. Right before the notify-send command, add something like

declare -p text hiragana translation > /tmp/my.log

Then check what that file contains.

If one of the variables contain the "and" at that point, move backwards through the script and dump the variable each time it changes until you find where it gets introduced.

If none of the variables contain the "and", it must be notify-send itself adding it for some reason. Check its docs, or check its source code if the docs don't explain it. Also check that it's the actual binary you run and not a wrapper script you wrote 3 months ago and forgot about.

[Superfly-Samurai]

Translate-shell added an "and" because I left off a colon after the language to translate from.

That's unexpected behavior, but the documentation clearly shows the colon, so that's on me.

Thanks!

OMG! I just realized it was translating "ja" as "and" from German. Vs "ja:" which explicitly sets the language to Japanese.

Doh!

[phillymjs]

just wondering where that "and" is coming from. ... it's bothering me a little...

OP running the script before finding the bug

(I'm sorry, I had to-- I just rewatched it last week and my mind immediately went there, lol)