translate-shell

Translate Shell provides command‑line access to online translation services, defaulting to Google Translate but also supporting Bing, Yandex, and Apertium. It can output full translation details or a brief single‑line result, and it can be run in an interactive mode where each line entered is translated on the fly. The tool works on any POSIX‑compatible environment, including Linux, macOS, BSD, Android via Termux, and Windows through WSL, Cygwin, or MSYS2.

The program relies on GNU Awk (gawk 4.0+), Bash or Zsh, and optionally uses curl with OpenSSL, FriBidi for right‑to‑left scripts, and various audio players or eSpeak for text‑to‑speech. Paging utilities such as less or more, rlwrap for line editing, and spell‑checking tools like aspell or hunspell enhance the experience but are not required for basic operation.

Typical users are developers or power users who need quick translations within scripts, terminals, or remote sessions, especially when working with multiple languages or requiring batch processing without leaving the command line.