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Betty: Translate English Phrases Into Linux Commands

Betty is an open source tool that translates English-like phrases into Linux commands. The main goal of this project is to use the Linux powered systems through natural language input. Let us see some examples how it works.

Installation

Betty installation is very simple and straight forward. Make sure youve installed the following prerequisites packages.

On Debian based systems:

sudo apt-get install git curl ruby

On RPM based systems:

yum install git curl ruby

Now, git clone the Betty repository to any preferred location. I am going to clone the betty repo in my home directory i.e /home/sk/.

git clone https://github.com/pickhardt/betty

Add the betty alias in your bashrc file.

sudo nano ~/.bashrc

Add the following line at the end:

alias betty="/home/sk/betty/main.rb"

Make sure youve replaced the correct path of the betty directory.

Its done. Now, its time to play with betty.

Usage

You should include the word “betty” in-front of every English phrases. As you may know already, if we want to know the user name of our system, we run the following command:

whoami

Sample output:

sk

As you see above, my current user name is sk. Well, now we can get the same result using betty as shown below.

betty whats my username

Sample output:

Betty: Running whoami
sk

Cool, isnt it? Yes. Betty understands the normal English phrase “whats my username” that I entered, and ran the command “whoami” automatically, and finally displayed the correct output.

Let us see some other commands too.

Betty will respond in multiple ways if you didnt enter exactly what youre looking for. For example, we run the following command:

betty whats my name

Betty isnt sure whether she should find the system username or full name. In this case, she will ask you multiple questions to find the exact result. As you see below, Betty asks me which command(whoami or finger $(whoami) | sed s/.*: *//;q) should I want to execute. I just want it to display my username, so i chose number 1.

Betty: Okay, I have multiple ways to respond.
Betty: Enter the number of the command you want me to run, or N (no) if you don't want me to run any.
[1] whoami
Gets your system username.
[2] finger $(whoami) | sed 's/.*: *//;q'
Gets your full name.
1
Betty: Running whoami
sk

Compress And Uncompress Folders

If you want to compress a file or a folder, use the following command. For example, I want to compress a folder called “test” folder in my home directory.

betty compress test/ test.tar.gz

Sample output:

Betty: Running tar -czvf test.tar.gz test/
test/
test/home/
test/home/sk/
test/home/sk/test/
test/home/sk/test/sample

Similarly, we can use the following command to uncompress an archive file.

betty uncompress test.tar.gz

Sample output:

Betty: Running mkdir test &&  tar -zxvf test.tar.gz -C test
test/
test/home/
test/home/sk/
test/home/sk/test/
test/home/sk/test/sample

Complete list of Betty commands

Betty tool has some command formats. It doesnt understand if you put the command “what is my user name” instead of “whats my username”. So, you have to enter the correct English phrase that supported by Betty.

The complete list of supported commands are given below.

Count:
betty how many words are in this directory
betty how many characters are in myfile.py
betty count lines in this folder
(Note that there's many ways to say more or less the same thing.)

Config:
betty change your name to Joe
betty speak to me
betty stop speaking to me

Datetime:
betty what time is it
betty what is todays date
betty what month is it
betty whats today

Find:
betty find me all files that contain california

Internet:
betty download http://www.mysite.com/something.tar.gz to something.tar.gz
betty uncompress something.tar.gz
betty unarchive something.tar.gz to somedir
(You can use unzip, unarchive, untar, uncompress, and expand interchangeably.)
betty compress /path/to/dir

iTunes:
betty mute itunes
betty unmute itunes
betty pause the music
betty resume itunes
betty stop my music
betty next song
betty prev track
betty what song is playing
(Note that the words song, track, music, etc. are interchangeable)

Fun:
betty go crazy
betty whats the meaning of life
...and more that are left for you to discover!

Map:
betty show me a map of mountain view

Meta:
betty what version are you (or just betty version)
betty whats your github again

Permissions:
betty give me permission to this directory
betty give anotheruser ownership of myfile.txt

Process:
betty show me all processes by root containing grep
betty show me all my processes containing netbio

Sizes:
betty show size for myfile.txt

Spotify:
betty play spotify
betty pause spotify
betty next spotify
betty previous spotify

User:
betty whats my username
betty whats my real name
betty whats my ip address
betty who else is logged in
betty whats my version of ruby

Web queries:
betty turn web on
betty please tell me what is the weather like in London

Betty seems very nice tool to Linux novice users. Hope this tool will useful for you too.

Cheers!

Source:


via: http://www.unixmen.com/betty-translate-english-phrases-linux-commands/

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