Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

command line

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English

Syllables: com-mand -line
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

noun

The text prompt presented to the user in a command line interface.

noun

A line of text that is entered at such a prompt.

verb

Alternative form of command-line.

Example Sentences

"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."
"Type the following at the command line: du -s -h."
"Use the following command line to compile a file without linking: gcc -c main.c -o main.o"
"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."
"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?"

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Computing.

Inflected Forms

command lines (plural) command-line (alternative) command lines (present, singular) command lining (participle, present) command lined (participle, past) command lined (past)

Questions

What does command line mean?: A shell, a command line interface; usually used with the definite article.

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