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by colechristensen 3953 days ago
To me and a lot of people, the commandline is already natural language.

`ls -a` is just a contraction for "list all"

Your nine words aren't any more expressive than my two, and that's the problem. There's not much value in being able to express simple commands with long sentences (with often many interpretable meanings)

There _could be_ value in natural language processing for some very complicated commands, but it would have to be fairly intelligent before it would be useful.

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>$ fix network > Your currently specified nameserver, 104.105.10.11, is pingable but not responding to DNS requests. Try putting in 8.8.8.8.

or

>$ detect usb

>You recently plugged in a device with an ACME-1000 chip. You need to install the acme kernel module and try again.