Command Line Interface

Definition: Command Line Interface

Command Line Interface

Noun

1. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.

Specialty Definition: Command Line Interface

Domain	Definition
Computing	Command line interface A means of communication between a program and its user, based solely on textual input and output. Commands are input with the help of a keyboard or similar device and are interpreted and executed by the program. Results are output as text or graphics to the terminal. Command line interfaces usually provide greater flexibility than graphical user interfaces, at the cost of being harder for the novice to use. Consequently, some hackers look down on GUIs as designed For The Rest Of Them. (1996-01-12). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Command Line Interface

Synonym: CLI (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Command Line Interface

Specialty definitions using "command line interface": remote login. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Command Line Interface

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
command line interface	7
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Modern Translation: Command Line Interface

Language		Translations for "command line interface"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		kommandolinjebetjening, kommandoliniebetjening. (various references)

Dutch		command line interface, CLI. (various references)

Finnish		komentotulkki, komentorivitulkki. (various references)

French		CLI, interface de ligne de commande. (various references)

German		CLI. (various references)

Greek		CLI, διεπαφή γραμμής εντολών. (various references)

Pig Latin		ommandcay inelay interfaceay

Portuguese		interface de linha de comandos. (various references)

Spanish		interfaz de línea de instrucciones. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.