Command-line interface (CLI)
CLI(명령줄)
A way of controlling a computer by typing text commands instead of pressing buttons.
Overview
Most of the time we use a computer by pressing icons and buttons. A CLI works by typing commands such as "copy this file" or "run this program" into a plain dark window. That window is called a terminal.
Developers do most of their installing, running and testing in a terminal. Both the commands and the results are text, so a language model can read and write them easily. That is why many coding agents come as products that run in a terminal.
An everyday example
At a restaurant, pointing at a picture on the menu is the button way. A CLI is like saying the exact order out loud: "two bowls of soup and one extra rice."
Why it matters
Phrases like "released a CLI tool" and "AI you use in the terminal" come up often in AI coding news. The screen is plain, but it is a good way to chain many tasks together and run them automatically.
Also calledCLI, command line