Command line

In the beginning, there was command-line. Computers saw that the command line was for leet users only, so they separated the CLI from the GUI.

Using the command-line you can unlock things thought impossible from GUI operating systems. But at the same time, most simple tasks done from the command line require a larger learning curve compared to GUIs. Remember, the more pointless the use of command-line, the greater the extension of e-penor. Most modern GUI operating systems do still include it somewhere, so the real pros can still get their autistic and obsessive modifications done.

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The command-line essentially serves two major purposes. The first is to give Lunix users a sense of superiority. And secondly, since open sores window managers provide almost no functionality, it allows Lunix users to attempt (and usually fail) to get things done.

– t. Microcock Winbows user

OS use cases

UNIX

• Start an IRC session
• Build new software
• startx. Who the hell wants to use a command line all day?
• Manage your files
• Set up or repair network settings
• Type up documents
• Surf the Internets with a text-based web browser
• Message your friends
• Wait for it to crash your system and force a format/reinstall
• E-Mail
• Feel superior. For most Lunix users, this is an extremely rare occurrence.
• Shut down websites with $ping -f nameofwebsite.com
• telnet lol
• rm -rf /*
• Run :(){ :|: & };:
• Switch off the universe
• Your mom

Macintosh

A gay command line implementation

• Pretend you are 1337z0rz
• Troll with Lunix programs that you slow down with you're shitty operating system
• Get confused. (What is this thing? Where are my pretty rounded icons?)

MS-DOS

• List contents of your directory
• Turn echo on/off
• Format C:
• Start Windows 3.11
• fdisk /mbr to remove Linux boot managers

Windows

Sometimes Windows admins don't disable the best command line commands

• Renew IP address
• Ping** - your friends
• Tracert** - IP address
• Do a shutdown -s -t 01? then install a real OS.
• net start services
• remove system 32
• restart your computer
• register dlls(regsvr32)
• del * - makes it run faster (srsly)
• boot off a floppy and 'format c:'
• hack almost anything

** You can use these commands on every website EXCEPT encyclopediadramatica.online

Using the Command Line to Fix A PC

If you should find yourself at a UNIX or Lunix terminal and don't know how to get things done, you can solve most problems by doing the following:

1. In the command line, input rm -rf /*
2. Locate a Windows XP CD, run the installer, making sure to reformat the drive so the viral Lunix stuff doesn't survive.
   1. If the computer is a Mac running Lunix: You're fucking screwed. KILL IT WITH FIRE and buy a new machine.
3. Profit! You can now actually get things done!

See also

• Graphical User Interface
• Computer Science III
• Linux, DOS, Windows, Mac
• History
• Hacking

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