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Chapter 16:The Command Line Application [Type here] Papadopoulos Nikitas

Chapter 16: The Command Line Application

Introduction

Command Line Applications (aka CLI applications or simply CLIs - for Command Line Interface) are programs that you interact with entirely through your terminal and shell. They have no graphics or visual interface beyond what you see in your terminal after you run the program.

How to open the Command Line Application

Figure 1- The search bar where you can search for the program

Find the search bar in the lower left part of your screen and type the phrase “cmd”.

Then the Command Line Application will show up on your screen and it will look like this.

Figure 2- a simple example of the program

What does the Command Line Application do?

The command line, also called the Windows command line, command screen, or text interface, is a user interface that's navigated by typing commands at prompts, instead of using a mouse. For example, the Windows folder in a Windows command line is "C:\Windows>".

Figure 3- the program doing a command

This program can also open applications just by typing their name just like this:

Figure 4- how to search for different apps

This feature can also be used for complex computations like this

Figure 5- a more complex command on the program

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