diff --git a/egs/gale_arabic/s5d/local/Eng2Ara.sh b/egs/gale_arabic/s5d/local/Eng2Ara.sh
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-#!/usr/bin/env perl
-
-# Copyright 2014 QCRI (author: Ahmed Ali)
-# Apache 2.0
-
-use warnings;
-use strict;
-use Encode;
-use utf8;
-
-
-
-if (@ARGV !=2 )
-    {#
-	print "usage: $0 <inFile> <onlyArabicFile>\n"; 
-	exit (1);   
-    }
-    
-# <\check usage>
-my $inFile = shift (@ARGV);
-my $ouFile = shift(@ARGV);
-
-
-open INFILE, "<$inFile" || die "unable to open the input file $inFile\n";
-binmode INFILE, ":encoding(utf8)";
-
-
-open OUTPUTFILE, ">$ouFile" or die "unable to open the output mlf file $ouFile\n";
-binmode OUTPUTFILE, ":encoding(utf8)";
-
-while (<INFILE>) {
-  my $BW = convertUTF8ToBuckwalter ($_);
-  print OUTPUTFILE "$BW"."\n";
-}
-close INFILE;
-close OUTPUTFILE;
-
-
-
-
-# this function is copied from MADATools.pm: MADA Tools
- sub convertUTF8ToBuckwalter {
-
-    my ($line)= (@_);
-    $line =~ s/\x{0621}/\'/g;   ## HAMZA
-    $line =~ s/\x{0622}/\|/g;   ## ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
-    $line =~ s/\x{0623}/\>/g;   ## ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
-    $line =~ s/\x{0624}/\&/g;   ## WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
-    $line =~ s/\x{0625}/\</g;   ## ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
-    $line =~ s/\x{0626}/\}/g;   ## YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
-    $line =~ s/\x{0627}/A/g;    ## ALEF
-    $line =~ s/\x{0628}/b/g;    ## BEH
-    $line =~ s/\x{0629}/p/g;    ## TEH MARBUTA
-    $line =~ s/\x{062A}/t/g;    ## TEH
-    $line =~ s/\x{062B}/v/g;    ## THEH
-    $line =~ s/\x{062C}/j/g;    ## JEEM
-    $line =~ s/\x{062D}/H/g;    ## HAH
-    $line =~ s/\x{062E}/x/g;    ## KHAH
-    $line =~ s/\x{062F}/d/g;    ## DAL
-    $line =~ s/\x{0630}/\*/g;   ## THAL
-    $line =~ s/\x{0631}/r/g;    ## REH
-    $line =~ s/\x{0632}/z/g;    ## ZAIN
-    $line =~ s/\x{0633}/s/g;    ## SEEN
-    $line =~ s/\x{0634}/\$/g;   ## SHEEN
-    $line =~ s/\x{0635}/S/g;    ## SAD
-    $line =~ s/\x{0636}/D/g;    ## DAD
-    $line =~ s/\x{0637}/T/g;    ## TAH
-    $line =~ s/\x{0638}/Z/g;    ## ZAH
-    $line =~ s/\x{0639}/E/g;    ## AIN
-    $line =~ s/\x{063A}/g/g;    ## GHAIN
-    $line =~ s/\x{0640}/_/g;    ## TATWEEL
-    $line =~ s/\x{0641}/f/g;    ## FEH
-    $line =~ s/\x{0642}/q/g;    ## QAF
-    $line =~ s/\x{0643}/k/g;    ## KAF
-    $line =~ s/\x{0644}/l/g;    ## LAM
-    $line =~ s/\x{0645}/m/g;    ## MEEM
-    $line =~ s/\x{0646}/n/g;    ## NOON
-    $line =~ s/\x{0647}/h/g;    ## HEH
-    $line =~ s/\x{0648}/w/g;    ## WAW
-    $line =~ s/\x{0649}/Y/g;    ## ALEF MAKSURA
-    $line =~ s/\x{064A}/y/g;    ## YEH
-
-    ## Diacritics
-    $line =~ s/\x{064B}/F/g;    ## FATHATAN
-    $line =~ s/\x{064C}/N/g;    ## DAMMATAN
-    $line =~ s/\x{064D}/K/g;    ## KASRATAN
-    $line =~ s/\x{064E}/a/g;    ## FATHA
-    $line =~ s/\x{064F}/u/g;    ## DAMMA
-    $line =~ s/\x{0650}/i/g;    ## KASRA
-    $line =~ s/\x{0651}/\~/g;   ## SHADDA
-    $line =~ s/\x{0652}/o/g;    ## SUKUN
-    $line =~ s/\x{0670}/\`/g;   ## SUPERSCRIPT ALEF
-
-    $line =~ s/\x{0671}/\{/g;   ## ALEF WASLA
-    $line =~ s/\x{067E}/P/g;    ## PEH
-    $line =~ s/\x{0686}/J/g;    ## TCHEH
-    $line =~ s/\x{06A4}/V/g;    ## VEH
-    $line =~ s/\x{06AF}/G/g;    ## GAF
-
-
-    ## Punctuation should really be handled by the utf8 cleaner or other method
-
-
-
-
-
-
-    return $line;
-}
diff --git a/egs/gale_arabic/s5d/local/e2a.sh b/egs/gale_arabic/s5d/local/eng2arabic.pl
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rename from egs/gale_arabic/s5d/local/e2a.sh
rename to egs/gale_arabic/s5d/local/eng2arabic.pl