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• trans

プロジェクトの歴史

The official README identifies Translate Shell as formerly Google Translate CLI and describes Google Translate as the default engine, with Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, and Apertium also supported. The tool is implemented around GNU Awk plus a shell wrapper, which made it unusually portable for a network-facing terminal utility.

The project documents multiple installation styles: a self-contained downloadable executable, package-manager installation, Zsh Antigen integration, Git builds, and Docker. Official release metadata shows the 0.9.6 line active through the late 2010s and the 0.9.7 line released in 2022 and 2023.

採用の歴史

Translate Shell became a package-manager staple because it solved a common terminal-user problem without requiring a browser or GUI. Its README says it works on GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD, Android through Termux, and Windows through WSL, Cygwin, or MSYS2, and the input facts show packaging across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Alpine, MacPorts, Nix, and openSUSE.

The tool's adoption also reflects shell culture: it can translate command arguments, standard input, multi-line text, or interactive shell input, and optional dependencies such as rlwrap, paging tools, text-to-speech programs, and spell checkers improve the terminal experience without becoming mandatory.

使われ方

Users call `trans` with source and target language expressions, such as `:fr`, `en:zh`, or multiple target languages joined with plus signs. It supports verbose output, brief mode, dictionary mode, language identification, interactive shell mode, standard input, and optional display handling for bidirectional scripts.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

For package nerds, Translate Shell is the classic example of turning a web translation service into a Unix filter. It is small enough to install everywhere, scriptable enough for dotfiles and editor hooks, and packaged widely enough that the same `trans` muscle memory works across Linux distributions and macOS.

Its Awk implementation and self-contained executable also make it a useful case study in packaging network-dependent command-line tools: the binary-like script is easy to distribute, while optional dependencies and upstream web-service changes are where maintainers feel the operational cost.

タイムライン

• Early project: The README states that Translate Shell was formerly Google Translate CLI.
• 2017-2020: Official GitHub releases show the 0.9.6 series continuing through several maintenance releases.
• 2022: Official GitHub releases list version 0.9.7.
• 2023: The official man page and GitHub releases list version 0.9.7.1.

Related projects

• Translate Shell is related to online translation engines such as Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, and Apertium. In packaging terms it also sits near terminal dictionary, text-to-speech, and shell productivity tools.

ソース

• https://api.github.com/repos/soimort/translate-shell/releases
• https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell#readme
• https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell
• https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/trans.1.html
• source_facts.package-manager