  We present new data and semantic parsing methods for the problem of mapping
English sentences to Bash commands (NL2Bash). Our long-term goal is to enable
any user to perform operations such as file manipulation, search, and
application-specific scripting by simply stating their goals in English. We
take a first step in this domain, by providing a new dataset of challenging but
commonly used Bash commands and expert-written English descriptions, along with
baseline methods to establish performance levels on this task.
