The command line remains one of the most powerful tools in any operating system, and that, of course, includes Windows 11. You may be used to using a graphical interface for most things, but there's ...

macOS comes with a text-to-speech engine, and getting it running in Terminal is as simple as typing “say” followed by any text in quotation marks, then Enter ...

Windows Terminal supports multiple command-line emulators. By creating a new profile in Windows Terminal, you can add your favorite command-line tools to it. This is a very useful feature as it allows ...

If you’ve ever opened a command-line window on Windows and wondered which tool you should be using, you’re not alone. Between Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Terminal, knowing when to choose ...

At the Microsoft Build conference this year, the company announced it will include a command-line text editor with Windows! This was followed up in a Windows blog post. We are introducing a ...

Microsoft Windows PowerShell has been a long time coming. Windows has never enjoyed the powerful shell scripting environments that its Unix rivals have long included. That’s changed now with the ...

The Windows 11 Command Prompt is an application that allows you to launch programs and change settings by typing commands into a window. Compared to similar features in the Windows GUI interface, ...

As with Windows, you can shut down your macOS machine from Terminal, and add a delay if necessary (if something needs to finish first, for instance). The command “sudo shutdown -h now” does a full ...