How to install Betty - command line virtual assistant tool

To install Betty command line virtual assistant in Linux

Betty is command line virtual assistant tool that is similar to Google Now Assistant service in Android Mobile devices. It translates the simple English into commands. By using this you can also perform some task from a Linux system’ s without knowing any type of commands.Using this tool we will perform almost all task like configurations, locating files, downloading from internet. Installation of Betty command line virtual assistant in Linux is explained in this article.

To install Betty

Run the following command to install the required packages.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install ruby curl git -y 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  git-man libcurl3-gnutls liberror-perl libjs-jquery libruby2.1 libyaml-0-2 ruby2.1 rubygems-integration
Suggested packages:
  git-daemon-run git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-el git-email git-gui gitk gitweb git-arch git-cvs git-mediawiki git-svn javascript-common ri ruby-dev bundler
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Setting up libjs-jquery (1.7.2+dfsg-3ubuntu2) ...
Setting up rubygems-integration (1.9) ...
Setting up libruby2.1:amd64 (2.1.5-4ubuntu1) ...
Setting up ruby2.1 (2.1.5-4ubuntu1) ...
Setting up ruby (1:2.1.5.1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4) ...

Then clone betty from github, by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# git clone https://github.com/pickhardt/betty 
Cloning into ' betty' ...
remote: Counting objects: 1090, done.
remote: Total 1090 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1090
Receiving objects: 100% (1090/1090), 623.34 KiB | 234.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (630/630), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

Run the following command to start betty command.

root@linuxhelp:~# echo " alias betty=" ~/betty/main.rb" "  > >  ~/.bashrc & &  source ~/.bashrc 

To view the user name

Betty is ready to use. Now lets try to get the username.

root@linuxhelp:~# betty whats my username 
Betty: Running whoami
Root

To check for the IP address

Utilize the following command to verify the IP address.

root@linuxhelp:~# betty whats my ip 
Betty: Okay, I have multiple ways to respond.
Betty: Enter the number of the command you want me to run, or N (no) if you don' t want me to run any.
[1] ifconfig
    Gets your internal ip address.
[2] curl -sL http://pannous.net/ip.php
    Gets your external ip address.
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Betty: Running ifconfig
eno16777736 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0c:29:3a:c0:e5  
          inet addr:192.168.5.222  Bcast:192.168.5.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe3a:c0e5/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7756 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4635 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:10351874 (10.3 MB)  TX bytes:352473 (352.4 KB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:302 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:302 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:43198 (43.1 KB)  TX bytes:43198 (43.1 KB)

To know the current working directory

Run the following command to check the current working directory.

root@linuxhelp:~# betty where am i 
Betty: Running pwd
/home/user1

To check for kernel version

Run the following command to verify the kernel version.

root@linuxhelp:~# betty whats my kernel version 
Betty: Running uname -a
Linux linuxhelp 4.2.0-16-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 8 15:35:06 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

To check for time and date

Run the following command to check the time and date

root@linuxhelp:~# betty whats time 
Betty: Running date +" %r (%T)" 
06:26:26 PM IST (18:26:26)
root@linuxhelp:~# betty whats date
Betty: Running date +" %a %d %b, %Y" 
Tue 16 Aug, 2016

To surf internet, just turn on the betty’ s web mode.

root@linuxhelp:~# betty turn web on 
Betty: Web queries ON

To count the number of lines in a text file

root@linuxhelp:~# ls 
betty  Desktop  Documents  Downloads  examples.desktop  Music  Pictures  Public  Templates  test  Videos
root@linuxhelp:~# betty count lines in test  
Betty: Running find test -type f -exec wc -l {}   | awk ' {total += $1} END {print total}' 
38

We can ask betty’ s name.

root@linuxhelp:~# betty whats your name 
Betty: My name is Betty.