TRANSLATE_ET(1)

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💖 TRANSLATE_ET 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're looking at translate_et from the AFS Command Reference — section 1 of the manual, the section for user commands, the section where the fun lives 💅

✨ NAME ✨

translate_et — the girl who translates numbered error codes into actual text messages 🎀

like, you show her a number, she tells you what it means. iconic behavior fr fr.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

translate_et <error number>+

that's it. that's the whole thing. you hand her error numbers, she hands you words. no cap 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕ — translate_et takes each error number you give it and translates it into a text message. every single one. she's thorough like that 💖

⚠️ okay important thing bestie: this command does not use the syntax conventions of the AFS command suites. she plays by her own rules, main character energy only 👑

and because of that, you've gotta give the command name in full. no cute abbreviations, no shortcuts. say her whole name. she deserves that respect 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • <error number>+ — this is where you list every error number you want translated. one, two, forty, doesn't matter, she'll do them all 🌈

💜 EXAMPLES 💜

look at her go. this command translates the error numbers 1 and 4:

% translate_et 1 4
1 ().1 = Not owner
4 ().4 = Interrupted system call

not me getting emotional over clean output 😭 she ATE that. no crumbs. 🔥

🔐 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED 🔐

None. zero. nada. she doesn't need permission from anybody, she's that girl ✨

IBM Corporation 2000. http://www.ibm.com/ All Rights Reserved.

This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachmann and Elizabeth Cassell. shoutout to the whole documentation squad, absolute legends 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie!! this was translate_et from OpenAFS, dated 2026-07-27 — go forth and translate those error codes, you're gonna slay 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅

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