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  2. Command-line interface - Wikipedia

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    A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command lines. Command-line interfaces emerged in the mid-1960s, on computer terminals , as an interactive and more user-friendly alternative to the non-interactive mode available with punched cards .

  3. Shell (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Command Prompt, a CLI shell in Windows Bash, a widely adopted Unix shell. A command-line interface (CLI) is an operating system shell that uses alphanumeric characters typed on a keyboard to provide instructions and data to the operating system

  4. List of command-line interpreters - Wikipedia

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    COMMAND.COM, the original Microsoft command line processor introduced on MS-DOS as well as Windows 9x, in 32-bit versions of NT-based Windows via NTVDM; cmd.exe, successor of COMMAND.COM introduced on OS/2 and Windows NT systems, although COMMAND.COM is still available in virtual DOS machines on IA-32 versions of those operating systems also.

  5. Terminal emulator - Wikipedia

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    xterm, a terminal emulator designed for the X Window System Windows Terminal, an open-source terminal emulator for Windows 10 and Windows 11. A terminal emulator, or terminal application, is a computer program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture. Though typically synonymous with a shell or text terminal, the ...

  6. Bash (Unix shell) - Wikipedia

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    As a command-line interface (CLI), Bash operates within a terminal emulator, or text window, where users input commands to execute various tasks. It also supports the execution of commands from files, known as shell scripts, facilitating automation. In keeping with Unix shell conventions, Bash incorporates a rich set of features.

  7. Cygwin - Wikipedia

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    Cygwin (/ ˈ s ɪ ɡ w ɪ n / SIG-win) [3] is a free and open-source Unix-like environment and command-line interface (CLI) for Microsoft Windows. The project also provides a software repository containing open-source packages. Cygwin allows source code for Unix-like operating systems to be compiled and run on Windows. Cygwin provides native ...

  8. Windows Terminal - Wikipedia

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    Windows Terminal is a multi-tabbed terminal emulator developed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and later [4] as a replacement for Windows Console. [5] It can run any command-line app in a separate tab. It is preconfigured to run Command Prompt , PowerShell , WSL and Azure Cloud Shell Connector, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and can also connect to SSH by manually ...

  9. Unix shell - Wikipedia

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    tcsh and sh shell windows on a Mac OS X Leopard [1] desktop A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a command line user interface for Unix-like operating systems . The shell is both an interactive command language and a scripting language , and is used by the operating system to control the execution of the system ...