An Adaptive UNIX Command-Line Assistant

Abstract

Although most users develop their own distinctive and often idiosyncratic modes of interaction with a command-line shell, for any particular user the interactions often reflect many underlying patterns. This paper describes ongoing work on developing a personal assistant for UNIX that learns to recognize such systematic patterns of use and makes them available to the user. In particular, we propose an extension to the UNIX shell tcsh that learns to predict a user's next command based on the user's past history of interactions with the shell.

Published in the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 542-543, February 5-8, 1997, Marina del Rey, California: ACM.

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