Translate Chinese text file to English.

cn2en.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# cn2en.sh
# Translate Chinese text file to English.
#
# 2020-09-06, Paul Philippov <paul@themactep.com>

if ! command -v trans >/dev/null; then
    echo "Translate Shell is required. https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/"
    echo "wget git.io/trans && chmod +x ./trans"
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 <Text file in Chinese>"
    exit 2
fi

infile=$1
cnfile="${infile%.*}.cn.${infile##*.}"
enfile="${infile%.*}.en.${infile##*.}"

cat "$infile" | iconv -f gb2312 -t utf8 - > "$cnfile"
[ $? -ne 0 ] && cp "$infile" "$cnfile"

trans -brief zh:en <  "$cnfile" > "$enfile"

echo "Done"
exit 0