• In the Beginning... Was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book...
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  • edition in The Punisher comics In the Beginning... Was the Command Line, a 1999 long essay by Neal Stephenson In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of...
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    command-line interface (CLI), sometimes called a command-line shell, is a means of interacting with software via commands – each formatted as a line of...
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    memetics, and philosophy. In his 1999 essay "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line", Stephenson explained the title of the novel as his term for a particular...
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    the beginning De Lint, Charles (June 2000). "Review of In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line". Books to Look For (column). F&SF. Vol. 98, no. 6. pp...
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    Bash (Unix shell) (category Free software programmed in C)
    Stephenson, Neal (2003). In the Beginning... Was the Command Line. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0380815937. "Evolution of shells in Linux". IBM. Retrieved 19...
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  • Command-line completion (also tab completion) is a common feature of command-line interpreters, in which the program automatically fills in partially...
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  • with many other domain-specific languages. Command-line interface In the Beginning... Was the Command Line Batch processing Job (computing) Butterfield...
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  • them. "crufty". The Jargon File, version 4.4.7. Look up cruft in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In the Beginning...was the Command Line – article by Neal...
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    Morlock (redirect from The Morlocks)
    operating system development, In the Beginning... was the Command Line, he demonstrates similarities between the future in The Time Machine and contemporary...
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    to the perceived steep learning curve of command-line interfaces (CLIs), which require commands to be typed on a computer keyboard. The actions in a GUI...
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  • default command interpreter in Microsoft Windows, CMD.EXE.[discuss] Take Command was the name that JP Software used for their GUI command-line interpreters...
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  • Pe (text editor) (category Software using the MIT license)
    development in 2002. Pe was used to write the BeOS Bible, as well as In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson, both of which mention...
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    Liquid VM could be the first real Java OS". Retrieved 26 November 2008. Neal Stephenson (1999). In the Beginning... Was the Command Line. Harper Perennial...
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  • Diff (category Plan 9 commands)
    a shell command that compares the content of files and reports differences. The term diff is also used to identify the output of the command and is used...
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    Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-6261-2. Van Vugt, Sander (2009). Beginning the Linux Command Line. Apress. ISBN 978-1-4302-1889-0. Garrido, José M; Richard Schlesinger...
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  • the beginning of a line, with a colon (:likethis). The command is available in MS-DOS versions 2 and later. Used in Batch files. The GRAFTABL command...
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  • the briefest power interruption, when a $10 clock would have one.[citation needed] Stephenson, Neal (1999). "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line"...
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    Vi (text editor) (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    needed][discuss] The name "vi" is derived from the shortest unambiguous abbreviation for the ex command visual, which switches the ex line editor to its...
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  • Babylon 5: In the Beginning is a 1998 American made-for-television film set in the Babylon 5 fictional universe. It was written by J. Michael Straczynski...
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  • OS/JCL command occurs (any line beginning with //), the default EOF sequence (/*) is found, or the physical end of data occurs. In the second case, the conditions...
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    COMMAND.COM is the default command-line interpreter for MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me. In the case of DOS, it is the default user interface...
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    Diskpart (category Windows commands)
    In computing, diskpart is a command-line disk partitioning utility included in Windows 2000 and later Microsoft operating systems, replacing its predecessor...
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    "interrupt the current program" in some command-line interfaces, and Control-E is interpreted by the Emacs text editor as "move the editor cursor to the end...
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    XEDIT (redirect from The Hessling Editor)
    appears only in columns 24 thru 28, to YES, and only on lines with the word FLEXIBLE, is doable. Another feature is a command line which allows the user to...
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  • the terminal emulator will transmit the space characters corresponding to the spaces at the beginning of the second line of the block of code on the clipboard...
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    The United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC or, obsolete, USACGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is a graduate school for United States...
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  • Netsh (category Windows commands)
    In computing, netsh, or network shell, is a command-line utility included in Microsoft's Windows NT line of operating systems beginning with Windows 2000...
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    The Hayes command set (also known as the AT command set) is a specific command language originally developed by Dale Heatherington and Dennis Hayes for...
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    MS-DOS (category Software using the MIT license)
    others. The introduction of Windows 3.0 in 1990, with an easy-to-use graphical user interface, marked the beginning of the end for the command-line driven...
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