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Vast majority of users (especially on Windows) don't understand the difference between console, terminal, shell, and command line. So this thread treats CLI as

Vast majority of users (especially on Windows) don't understand the difference between console, terminal, shell, and command line. So this thread treats CLI as TUI.

dataflow 3y ago
> Vast majority of users (especially on Windows) don't understand the difference between console, terminal What is the difference between these on Windows?
- ivanjermakov 3y ago
  I think in modern times these two can be used interchangeably, even in Linux. I listed it because it adds to the terminology confusion.
  - rewmie 3y ago
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  - hulitu 3y ago
    No, they cannot. Your tty4 or xterm underestand different commands than your shell.
    - appplication 3y ago
      Perhaps there is a more ideal world in which these converge because I cannot for the life of me understand why we need all of these concurrently. Tangential, tty is also a term that can and should be left in the past.
    - dataflow 3y ago
      >>> the difference between console, terminal >> these two can be used interchangeably, even in Linux. > No, they cannot. Your tty4 or xterm underestand different commands than your shell. I think you're replying to an imaginary comment? The question was about console vs. terminal, not terminal vs. shell.
- rewmie 3y ago
  > What is the difference between these on Windows? A command line interface (CLI), as the name implies, is a user interface pattern consisting of an application that you pass arguments to it through the command line to form a request/command to be executed by the application. This type of user interface also covers features such as exit code and text input/output through standard streams as to allow programs to be compostable through pipes. For example, '$ cp origin rest', '$ grep -Ri foo /opt | sort', etc. A terminal user interface (TUI) is a type of user interface which uses a terminal's limited features to provide a windowed user interface that supports interactivity. For example, see apps like vim, fdisk, etc.
  - dataflow 3y ago
    I was asking about console vs. terminal. Not CLI vs. TUI (?)
- deleted 3y ago
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Vast majority of users (especially on Windows) don't understand the difference between console, terminal, shell, and command line. So this thread treats CLI as TUI.

dataflow 3y ago

> Vast majority of users (especially on Windows) don't understand the difference between console, terminal What is the difference between these on Windows?

ivanjermakov 3y ago
I think in modern times these two can be used interchangeably, even in Linux. I listed it because it adds to the terminology confusion.
- rewmie 3y ago
  [dead]
- hulitu 3y ago
  No, they cannot. Your tty4 or xterm underestand different commands than your shell.
  - appplication 3y ago
    Perhaps there is a more ideal world in which these converge because I cannot for the life of me understand why we need all of these concurrently. Tangential, tty is also a term that can and should be left in the past.
  - dataflow 3y ago
    >>> the difference between console, terminal >> these two can be used interchangeably, even in Linux. > No, they cannot. Your tty4 or xterm underestand different commands than your shell. I think you're replying to an imaginary comment? The question was about console vs. terminal, not terminal vs. shell.
rewmie 3y ago
> What is the difference between these on Windows? A command line interface (CLI), as the name implies, is a user interface pattern consisting of an application that you pass arguments to it through the command line to form a request/command to be executed by the application. This type of user interface also covers features such as exit code and text input/output through standard streams as to allow programs to be compostable through pipes. For example, '$ cp origin rest', '$ grep -Ri foo /opt | sort', etc. A terminal user interface (TUI) is a type of user interface which uses a terminal's limited features to provide a windowed user interface that supports interactivity. For example, see apps like vim, fdisk, etc.
- dataflow 3y ago
  I was asking about console vs. terminal. Not CLI vs. TUI (?)
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