command line
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of command line
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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Additionally, it revealed a simple command line that CIA officials used to launch attacks that compromised Macs and hack network switches from Cisco.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2020
Eric Lyons, a computational biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, uses the video-capture tool asciinema to record what he types into the command line, but lower-tech solutions can also work.
From Nature ● Jan. 12, 2020
I asked them to set it in a monospaced, sans serif font, like a command line, and the production people did the rest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2019
I think about technology growing up from command line interfaces through the ’70s, to the invention of the graphical user interface—the mouse, the keyboard.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2018
To have find search for files whose names match XF86Config, you'd have to use a wildcard: $ find / -name '*XF86Config*' Like most of the command line tools, find accepts wildcards as arguments.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John
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