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command line en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A shell, a command line interface; usually used with the definite article.
   • The command line offers a lot of helpful features, such as tab completion and wildcard expansion.
   • I'm so used to the command line that I don't even know how to find things in the GUI.
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

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Translations (28)

fr ligne de commande (text prompt) · nl opdrachtregel (text prompt) · pt linha de comandos (text prompt) · nl commandoregel (text prompt) · ko 커맨드 라인 (text prompt) · he שורת הפקודה (text prompt) · cs příkazový řádek (text prompt) · ko 명령(命令)줄 (text prompt) · el γραμμή εντολής (text prompt) · fi komentorivi (text prompt) · cmn 命令列 (text prompt) · cmn 命令行 (text prompt) · de Befehlszeile (text prompt) · ro text de comandă (text prompt) · sv kommandorad (line of text) · de Kommandozeile (text prompt) · eo komanda linio (text prompt) · ko 명령행 (text prompt) · ro linie de comandă (linie textuală de comandă) (text prompt) · pt linha de comando (text prompt) · pl wiersz poleceń (text prompt) · sv kommandorad (text prompt) · ja コマンドライン (text prompt) · ru кома́ндная строка́ (text prompt) · cs příkazová řádka (text prompt) · eo komanda linio (line of text) · fa خط فرمان (text prompt) · pl wiersz poleceń (line of text)

wikidata: Q189053

command line en · VERB

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of command-line.
   alt 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 Janceski, “Problems with rsh command”, in perl.beginners (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025:
   • 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 support Linux" or forcing me to use a Windows interface and dialer to connect." and one day my light came on and I command lined a ppp-on and my modem dialed my ISP here in Temple who had told me, "No way Jose. You ain't gonna be able to get it to work." 2004 January 29, Chronocidal Charlie, “Hey! I Built One of Them Thangs”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025:
   • 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 all sparse (non existent) for commands? 2003 November 14, Nobody, “um...help?”, in alt.os.linux.mandrake (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025:

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