ericadamski / nlTerminal

Natural Language Terminal

A natural language terminal application written in Ruby, parses and executes UNIX commands given english sentences.

A paper describing the project is included in the Paper directory.

Supported commands are as follows :

Note: the program, as is, will only output the command which it choses to execute, the actual command is not executed.

• touch
• cp
• mv
• rm
• cat
• less
• cd
• pwd
• whoami ( not well supported )
• ls
• mkdir
• rmdir
• ln
• clear
• echo
• repeat
• man
• history
• wc
• kill
• exec
• grep
• find
• diff

To Run

The latest version of ruby must be installed. As well as the latest Stanford NLP release.

To run, start the terminal with /path/to/file/nlTerminal.rb -s or --start

• there some other basic options available with the -h | --help flag

To exit the terminal simply type exit, when propted.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Eric Adamski

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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