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.

TODO: 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