📅 May 7, 2014

Betty Is A Siri-Like App That Turns Plain English Into Code

a tool that translates plain English into Unix commands

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Working with the command line isn’t always easy as you have to memorize all sorts of commands like like “rm,” for removing a file, or “grep,” which finds particular chunks of text buried in a collection of files. That’s why, Google engineer and open source developer, Jeff Pickhardt created Betty a tool that translates plain English into Unix commands, the commands that popped up on the UNIX operating system in the ’70s and are still used by Apple’s OS X operating system, the open source Linux OS, and even Microsoft’s PowerShell environment.

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