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What is a CLI?

With Command Line Interface (CLI) we mean ‘some window in which we can interact with our machine’. Other terms that are used for CLI are: console, terminal, terminal emulator, bash, or shell.

In Windows one can have different Commmand Line Interfaces:

The big advantage of a CLI is that regardless which one you choose, commands across CLIs are universal. The sole exception being Command Prompt, which is why discourage using it.

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