sed script for Arabic romanization (Buckwalter)

arabic_buckwalter_romanization_using_linux_sed_command

# Made by Elsanussi Mneina on November 18th, 2020
# Anyone may use.

# It implements the Buckwalter transliteration system, where every Arabic Character corresponds to exactly one latin ASCII character.

# Useful web pages I used when making this code this code:
# How to escape single quotes: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1250079/how-to-escape-single-quotes-within-single-quoted-strings
# To learn about the Buckwalter tranliteration system see: http://www.qamus.org/transliteration.htm
# https://www.tutorialspoint.com/sed/sed_basic_commands.htm 
# If you need to read a file, replace the "echo" part of the command with a call to cat.

# Assuming you have text in Arabic characters in a file named input.txt in the current directory.
# Assuming you have text in Latin characters in a file named input2.txt in the current directory.
# The following are the two commands.

# Command to convert from Arabic to Latin characters
cat 'input.txt' | sed 'y/ءأؤإئابةتثجحخدذرزسشصضطظعغـفقكلمنهوىيًٌٍَُِّْ/'"'"'>&<}AbptvjHxd*rzs$SDTZEg_fqklmnhwYyFNKaui~o/' 

# Command to convert from Latin characters to Arabic characters
cat 'input2.txt' | sed 'y/'"'"'>&<}AbptvjHxd*rzs$SDTZEg_fqklmnhwYyFNKaui~o/ءأؤإئابةتثجحخدذرزسشصضطظعغـفقكلمنهوىيًٌٍَُِّْ/' 

# Your terminal may misbehave when given Latin characters. Just edit the command in a text editor, and press enter. The results should appear.