command line

A shell, a command line interface; usually used with the definite article.

Noun

  1. A shell, a command line interface; usually used with the definite article.
    • I'm so used to the command line that I don't even know how to find things in the GUI.
    • The command line offers a lot of helpful features, such as tab completion and wildcard expansion.
  2. The text prompt presented to the user in a command line interface.
    • Type the following at the command line: du -s -h.
  3. A line of text that is entered at such a prompt.
    • Use the following command line to compile a file without linking: gcc -c main.c -o main.o

Forms

command lines command-line

Verb

  1. Alternative form of command-line.
    • host1 is one host. the only host that I have been testing this on. via command line it works. via rsh command line it doesn't. via rsh to command prompt, then command lining it, it works. - 2002 August 19, Nikola...
    • Next, I am on the slow road to nvidia to try for those Linux drivers, already formatted Linux for a clean install so how does the installation go? It seems I will be command lining it for a bit and my documentation is...
    • And allowed me to innitiate^([sic]) my first connection to an ISP with LeadHat after two or three years of screwing wtih Linux, still using Windows to connect to Internet and having countless ISP tell me, "We don't...

Forms

command lines command lining command lined command-line