US Patent 10417331 System and method for processing command line interface commands

System and method for processing command line interface (CLI) commands of a CLI-based application, which include a help-like function to expose usage information of the CLI commands, use a database of CLI usage information to search for at least partial match to user query without user input to call the help-like function of CLI commands. As a result, at least one candidate CLI command from the CLI commands that corresponds to the at least partial match is selected and presented on a user interface for user selection to execute a CLI command.