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

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of command line.

verb

To write (something) in a command line.

Informal; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"After 8 years of MacOS, and frequent CLI conversations with the u**x heavy iron up the street, I have a vision where all OS' converge towards a unix-like system where extensions are loaded and dumped on the fly as apps need, which can be command-lined for those who want, or have the GUI of your choice to protect the innocent from actually seeing the engine."
"Scoured the internet for additional resources, tried the Safe Mode fix, tried the Catroot2 log file deletion, tried the registry fix, started and rebooted and command-lined the crypto services about 27 times, tried all the so-called fixes on the entire microsoft website world of wonder."
"One other thing, when I'm not sure, but I think that after I command-lined "/var/lib/logrotate.status" the terminal hung and then I did a "df" and wow! almost 30% of that usage evaporated for some strange reason."
"> What programming language are these scripts written in ? perl. using the DBD:Pg interface instead of command-lining it through psql"

Usage

Inflected Forms

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

Frequently Paired Words

command line

Questions

What does command-line mean?: Alternative form of command line.

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