Translate Shell

Translate Shell (formerly Google Translate CLI) is a command-line translator powered by Google Translate (default), Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, and Apertium. It gives you easy access to one of these translation engines in your terminal.

Main command is trans.

  • go through documentation/command line switches.

REPL

To go into REPL mode, type trans -shell <options>.

Available REPL modes:

  • -brief, only the most relevant translation
  • en:ru, specify source and target language

To exit REPL mode, type C-d.

Set the source language and the target language in translate-shell repl?
Russian → English - ru:en English → Russian - en:ru