Command-line interpreter

Okay, imagine you have a magic box that can do anything you want it to do. You just have to tell it what to do, and it will do it for you. But instead of talking to the magic box, you have to type out what you want it to do using a special language. That language is called the command line.

The command line interpreter (or CLI for short) is the thing that helps you talk to the magic box using the command line language. It's like a translator that takes what you type in the command line and turns it into something the magic box can understand.

So, let's say you want the magic box to make a new folder on your computer called "unicorns". You would type in "mkdir unicorns" into the command line, and the CLI would take that command and tell the magic box to create a new folder called "unicorns".

The CLI can do all sorts of things for you, like move files around, copy files, delete things, and much more. All you have to do is know the right commands to type, and the CLI will do the rest.

So while typing in specific commands to make the magic box do something might feel a little bit like a puzzle or a game, once you learn how to speak this language, you can get your computer to do just about anything you can imagine!