What is OkShell

OkShell is a command line interface specially designed for human beings. With OkShell, you use your own personalized human language command to perform any task that can be performed using a Shell command.

For example, in a Linux system, if you would like to replace the string "Alice" with "Bob" in all .txt files, you don't need to remember the following (inhuman) Shell command

$ find . -type f -name \*.txt -exec sed -i 's/Alice/Bob/g' {} \;

instead you can just do

$ ok replace Alice with Bob in all txt files

The software is simply an executable named "ok". It doesn't utilize any sophisticated machine learning techniques therefore it works well. It's fully personalized. It's cross-platform. Most importantly, it's simple to use. Below is a link to a presentation that explains what OkShell is all about.

OkShell Introduction

For questions and feedbacks, please email [email protected].

How to Install

The installation of OkShell is currently in "pro mode", i.e., you need to compile it from the source code and know what you are doing. It will become more convenient for general users in future releases.

Currently supported operating systems: Most Linux distributions, e.g., Ubuntu, RedHat, etc.

To install:

1. Download source code of OkShell by (if you have Git installed)

    $ git clone https://github.com/larryyueli/okshell.git
   

   or download the zip file or tar.gz file.

2. Make sure you have the following packages installed on your computer.

    - g++ version 4.6 or above (recommanded package: build-essential)
    - libboost-dev
    - libboost-serialization-dev
    - libboost-regex-dev
    - libboost-filesystem-dev
    - libboost-system-dev
    - libreadline-dev
   

3. Under okshell directory, run make

4. Run sudo make install

How to Use

You could be in one of two modes when using OkShell: NORMAL mode or CONFIG mode.

When you are in NORMAL mode, you just want to run some command (90% of use cases). Just type ok followed by whatever you want to do. For example,

$ ok replace "good" with "great" in txt files

When you are in CONFIG mode occasionally, you want to run some configuration tasks. Just type ok twice, followed by some configuration command. For example

$ ok ok cloud off

To see a list of the configuration commands, do

$ ok ok help

To see this manual, do

$ ok help

Copyright (c) 2013 Larry Yueli Zhang