TRANS(1)

NAME

trans - Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc.

SYNOPSIS

trans [OPTIONS] [SOURCE]:[TARGETS] [TEXT]...

DESCRIPTION

This tool translates text into any language from the command-line, using a translation engine such as Google Translate, Bing Translator and Yandex.Translate.

Each argument which is not a valid option is treated as TEXT to be translated.

If neither TEXT nor the input file is specified by command-line arguments, the program will read and translate from standard input.

OPTIONS

  Information options

-V, -version
    Print version and exit.

-H, -help
    Print help message and exit.

-M, -man
    Show man page and exit.

-T, -reference
    Print reference table of all supported languages and codes, and exit. Names of languages are displayed in their endonyms (language name in the language itself).

-R, -reference-english
    Print reference table of all supported languages and codes, and exit. Names of languages are displayed in English.

-L CODES, -list CODES
    Print details of languages and exit. When specifying two or more language codes, concatenate them by plus sign "+".

-S, -list-engines
    List available translation engines and exit.

-U, -upgrade
    Check for upgrade of this program.

  Translator options

-e ENGINE, -engine ENGINE
    Specify the translation engine to use. (default: google)

  Display options

-verbose
    Verbose mode.

    Show the original text and its most relevant translation, then its phonetic notation (if any), then its alternative translations (if any) or its definition in the dictionary (if it is a word).

    This option is unnecessary in most cases since verbose mode is enabled by default.

-b, -brief
    Brief mode.

    Show the most relevant translation or its phonetic notation only.

-d, -dictionary
    Dictionary mode.

    Show the definition of the original word in the dictionary.

-identify
    Language identification.

    Show the identified language of the original text.

-show-original Y/n
    Show original text or not. (default: yes)

-show-original-phonetics Y/n
    Show phonetic notation of original text or not. (default: yes)

-show-translation Y/n
    Show translation or not. (default: yes)

-show-translation-phonetics Y/n
    Show phonetic notation of translation or not. (default: yes)

-show-prompt-message Y/n
    Show prompt message or not. (default: yes)

-show-languages Y/n
    Show source and target languages or not. (default: yes)

-show-original-dictionary y/N
    Show dictionary entry of original text or not. (default: no)

    This option is enabled in dictionary mode.

-show-dictionary Y/n
    Show dictionary entry of translation or not. (default: yes)

-show-alternatives Y/n
    Show alternative translations or not. (default: yes)

-w NUM, -width NUM
    Specify the screen width for padding.

    This option overrides the setting of environment variable $COLUMNS.

-indent NUM
    Specify the size of indent (number of spaces). (default: 4)

-theme FILENAME
    Specify the theme to use. (default: default)

-no-theme
    Do not use any other theme than default.

-no-ansi
    Do not use ANSI escape codes.

-no-autocorrect
    Do not autocorrect. (if defaulted by the translation engine)

-no-bidi
    Do not convert bidirectional texts.

-no-warn
    Do not write warning messages to stderr.

-dump
    Print raw API response instead.

  Audio options

-p, -play
    Listen to the translation.

    You must have at least one of the supported audio players (mplayer, mpv or mpg123) installed to stream from Google Text-to-Speech engine. Otherwise, a local speech synthesizer may be used instead (say on macOS, espeak on Linux or other platforms).

-speak
    Listen to the original text.

-n VOICE, -narrator VOICE
    Specify the narrator, and listen to the translation.

    Common values for this option are male and female.

-player PROGRAM
    Specify the audio player to use, and listen to the translation.

    Option -play will try to use mplayer, mpv or mpg123 by default, since these players are known to work for streaming URLs. Not all command-line audio players can work this way. Use this option only when you have your own preference.

    This option overrides the setting of environment variable $PLAYER.

-no-play
    Do not listen to the translation.

-no-translate
    Do not translate anything when using -speak.

-download-audio
    Download the audio to the current directory.

-download-audio-as FILENAME
    Download the audio to the specified file.

  Terminal paging and browsing options

-v, -view
    View the translation in a terminal pager (less, more or most).

-pager PROGRAM
    Specify the terminal pager to use, and view the translation.

    This option overrides the setting of environment variable $PAGER.

-no-view
    Do not view the translation in a terminal pager.

-browser PROGRAM
    Specify the web browser to use.

    This option overrides the setting of environment variable $BROWSER.

  Networking options

-x HOST:PORT, -proxy HOST:PORT
    Use HTTP proxy on given port.

    This option overrides the setting of environment variables $HTTP_PROXY and $http_proxy.

-u STRING, -user-agent STRING
    Specify the User-Agent to identify as.

    This option overrides the setting of environment variables $USER_AGENT.

  Interactive shell options

-I, -interactive, -shell
    Start an interactive shell, invoking rlwrap whenever possible (unless -no-rlwrap is specified).

-E, -emacs
    Start the GNU Emacs front-end for an interactive shell.

    This option does not need to, and cannot be used along with -I or -no-rlwrap.

-no-rlwrap
    Do not invoke rlwrap when starting an interactive shell.

    This option is useful when your terminal type is not supported by rlwrap (e.g. emacs).

  I/O options

-i FILENAME, -input FILENAME
    Specify the input file.

    Source text to be translated will be read from the input file, instead of standard input.

-o FILENAME, -output FILENAME
    Specify the output file.

    Translations will be written to the output file, instead of standard output.

  Language preference options

-l CODE, -hl CODE, -lang CODE
    Specify your home language (the language you would like to see for displaying prompt messages in the translation).

    This option affects only the display in verbose mode (anything other than source language and target language will be displayed in your home language). This option has no effect in brief mode.

    This option is optional. When its setting is omitted, English will be used.

    This option overrides the setting of environment variables $LANGUAGE, $LC_ALL, $LANG and $HOME_LANG.

-s CODE, -sl CODE, -source CODE, -from CODE
    Specify the source language (the language of original text).

    This option is optional. When its setting is omitted, the language of original text will be identified automatically (with a possibility of misidentification).

    This option overrides the setting of environment variable $SOURCE_LANG.

-t CODES, -tl CODE, -target CODES, -to CODES
    Specify the target language(s) (the language(s) of translated text). When specifying two or more language codes, concatenate them by plus sign "+".

    This option is optional. When its setting is omitted, everything will be translated into English.

    This option overrides the setting of environment variables $LANGUAGE, $LC_ALL, $LANG and $TARGET_LANG.

[SOURCE]:[TARGETS]
    A simpler, alternative way to specify the source language and target language(s) is to use a shortcut formatted string:

    •   SOURCE-CODE:TARGET-CODE

    •   SOURCE-CODE:TARGET-CODE1+TARGET-CODE2+...

    •   SOURCE-CODE=TARGET-CODE

    •   SOURCE-CODE=TARGET-CODE1+TARGET-CODE2+...

    Delimiter ":" and "=" can be used interchangeably.

    Either SOURCE or TARGETS may be omitted, but the delimiter character must be kept.

  Other options

-no-init
    Do not load any initialization script.

--  End-of-options.

    All arguments after this option are treated as TEXT to be translated.

EXIT STATUS

0   Successful translation.

1   Error.

ENVIRONMENT

PAGER
    Equivalent to option setting -pager.

BROWSER
    Equivalent to option setting -browser.

PLAYER
    Equivalent to option setting -player.

HTTP_PROXY
    Equivalent to option setting -proxy.

USER_AGENT
    Equivalent to option setting -user-agent.

HOME_LANG
    Equivalent to option setting -lang.

SOURCE_LANG
    Equivalent to option setting -source.

TARGET_LANG
    Equivalent to option setting -target.

FILES

/etc/translate-shell
    Initialization script. (system-wide)

$HOME/.translate-shell/init.trans
    Initialization script. (user-specific)

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/translate-shell/init.trans
    Initialization script. (user-specific)

./.trans
    Initialization script. (current directory)

FURTHER DOCUMENTATION

<https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell/wiki>

REPORTING BUGS

<https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell/issues>

AUTHORS
Mort Yao <soi@mort.ninja>.