Question: Explain the term CLI?

Answer: CLI stands for Command Line Interface. It is a way for humans to interact with computers and is also known as the Command-line user interface. It relies on textual request and response transaction process where user types declarative commands to instruct the computer to perform operations.

Advantages of CLI

• Very flexible
• Can easily access commands
• Much faster and easier to use by expert
• It does not use much CPU processing time.

Disadvantages of CLI

• Learning and remembering type commands is hard.
• Have to be typed precisely.
• It can be very confusing.
• Surfing web, graphics, etc are a few tasks that are hard or impossible to do on the command line.


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