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
Jupyter Notebook is not particularly accessible to researchers who might be uncomfortable using a command line, Brown says, but there are more user-friendly platforms that can bridge the gap, including Terra and Seven Bridges Genomics.
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
If it is available, at your host system's command line, type archie -s filename where filename is the program or document you're looking for, and hit enter.
From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation
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