soimort/translate-shell

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7506 stars · 393 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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Translate Shell is a command-line translator that provides access to Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, and Apertium from the terminal. Written in GNU Awk, it supports brief and detailed translations, interactive shell mode, and runs on POSIX-compliant systems.

Use cases

• translate text from the command line
• quickly translate a phrase in my terminal
• interactive translation shell for translating lines of text
• translate files or clipboard content via CLI
• use Google Translate without opening a browser
• script automated translations in bash

When to choose

• you need fast terminal-based translations on Linux, macOS, or BSD
• you want to script translations in shell pipelines
• you prefer lightweight tools with minimal dependencies (just gawk)
• you want multiple translation engines from one tool

When to avoid

• you need a GUI translation app
• you require guaranteed API reliability, since it scrapes web translation services that may change or rate-limit
• you need offline translation
• you are on a system without GNU Awk 4.0+

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

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