SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBJECT-ORIENTED GRAPHICALLY INTEGRATEDCOMMAND SH ELL

摘要

A system and method for providing object-oriented graphical integrated command shell (ICS) integrates the command shell into a graphical user interface (GUI) environment in order to provide a single graphical user interface, so that the user does not need to work in different environments for different tasks. To accomplish the integration, the ICS provides interpretation of output responses that occur as result of processing textual commands entered by a user. An output response from the command shell is typically one or more lines of text from an output stream such as standard error or standard output. The output response is interpreted by the ICS to determine a meaning. Interpretation may be by pattern matching with regular expressions. If interpreted lines of command output (e. g. indicating a file or folder) map to some other object model (e. g. a file subsystem) in the UI, appropriate object model objects are created. Mapping output produces integration between different subsystems (i.e. file subsystem and command subsystem), allowing the command subsystem to inherit the behaviors and actions associated with the object model with which it is integrated.