command-line

English

Noun

command-line (plural command-lines)

1. Alternative form of command line.

Verb

command-line (third-person singular simple present command-lines, present participle command-lining, simple past and past participle command-lined)

1. (transitive, informal) To write (something) in a command line.

   Alternative form: command line

   • 1997 April 14, Peter Kerr, “MacOS sucks, get UNIX instead”, in comp.sys.mac.wanted‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 9 December 2025:

     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.

   • 2003 August 13, Dave at the end of my rope, “Update.inf, Crypto Services Of Doom”, in microsoft.public.security.virus‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 9 December 2025:

     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.

   • 2004 May 16, [e-mail], “Which file to edit to Rotate Logs -”, in alt.os.linux.mandrake‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 9 December 2025:

     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.

   • 2005 July 19, Oliver Crosby, “Looking for tips”, in pgsql.performance‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 9 December 2025:

     > What programming language are these scripts written in ?
     perl. using the DBD:Pg interface instead of command-lining it through psql