command line
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of command line
First recorded in 1970–75
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Ellen and Maddie trying to figure out who’s speaking to them through the command line.
From The Verge ● Sep. 6, 2022
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
If nothing happens after a minute or so, hit control-C to return to your host system's command line.
From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation
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