International Business Machines Corporation
Facilitating use of an unfamiliar command line tool via a familiar command line tool

Abstract:

A method of translating a first command to a target command includes receiving the first command in a first command format, acquiring a first utility intermediate representation framework (UIRF) including a plurality of a first set of node instances. The method also includes acquiring a first user utility intermediate representation framework (UUIRF) by parsing the first command into one or more command elements, representing each command element by a respective node instance of the first UIRF, the first UUIRF representing an intention of the first command, acquiring a target UUIRF based on a target format, the target UUIRF including a target set of node instances, entering information from each of the first set of node instances of the first UUIRF into a corresponding node instance of the target set of node instances in the target UUIRF, and constructing the target command based on the target UUIRF.