tl

A tiny translation utility.

Installation

Install Go according your platform by following https://go.dev/doc/install guide.

Or manually (GNU/Linux)

# Debian (or Ubuntu, Kali etc)
# Note: On Debian you'll get bit older version of go, to get bleeding edge check out https://go.dev/doc/install
apt install golang

# Arch (Manjaro, BlackArch)
# Note: Arch and all Arch based distro will pull latest version of Go, which might be unstable
pacman -Syy golang

# FreeBSD
# Note: Might contain very old version, try to build from source by following https://freebsd.sh/go/
pkg install go

After installation try using go version on terminal If the output like this, you're good to go!

go version gox.x.x [arch]

Here x is used to specify the version and arch is used to specify the architecture that the OS supports.

Install make

# Debian, Arch, FreeBSD
apt install make
pacman -Syy golang
pkg install go

Install tl

Prebuild binary

Head over to releases and grab the lastest build

Build from source

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Ruzie/tl.git

• Move there and run make, meanwhile you should have tl

Usage Guide

./tl v0.1

Usage: 
./tl [options/none] [message]

Options:
 -h, shows this message
 -l, language code translated to
 -f, file to translate

Parameters usage

• Translate to English (no params)

./tl Acesta este un text de probă

• Translate to a specific language

./tl -l ru Acesta este un text de probă

• Translate a text document to English (no params)

./tl -f sample.txt

• Translate a text document to a specific language

./tl -l ru -f sample.txt

Known issue: Provided input file for translation, output result will be only show the first line result. For more info, see this.

Note: In language parameter you can't pass country name, Google translate API only supports ISO language codes.

For all supported language list, check it out https://www.labnol.org/code/19899-google-translate-languages