CLI stands for Command Line Interface. An interactive program that works in terminal is not like that by definition. Another example is 'apt-get' vs aptitude.

CLI stands for Command Line Interface. An interactive program that works in terminal is not like that by definition. Another example is 'apt-get' vs aptitude. The earlier is inherently scriptable. The latter needs you to start the program, input a few keys, exit. fdisk is another terminal program that's not command line.