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| | Command line interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Commands are entered as lines of text (that is, sequences of typed characters) from a keyboard, and output is also received as text. |
 | | In its simplest form, a CLI displays a prompt, the user types a command on the keyboard and terminates the command (usually with the Enter key), and the computer executes the command, providing textual output. |
 | | Another redirection character is the pipe (''), which tells the CLI to use the output of one command as the input to the next command; this "operator-stream" mechanism can be very powerful, as explained under pipeline (Unix). |
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