CLIonly
CLIonly refers to software, environments, or workflows designed to be used exclusively through a text-based command-line interface, without graphical user interfaces. A CLIonly product exposes its functionality via command-line tools, scripts, configuration files, and APIs accessible from a terminal or remote session, with user interaction mediated by text input and output.
In practice, CLIonly is common in server administration, embedded systems, and developer tooling where headless operation
Benefits include low resource usage, fast startup, predictable behavior, easy automation and versioning, and a smaller
The term describes both intentionally minimal operating modes of general-purpose systems and specialized environments such as