command

For command-oriented functions, the authorization required to perform command operations. 55

@command. A special @function that performs an immediate action in the user interface.

A specific instruction to a computer program, issued by the user to perform a desired action.

In "shell" programming, the syntactic combination of a program name and its arguments. More loosely, anything you type to a shell (a command interpreter) that starts it doing something. Even more loosely, a Perl "statement", which might start with a "label" and typically ends with a semicolon.

An order for an action to take place. 2. In data transmission, an instruction sent by the primary station instructing a secondary station to perform some specific function. 3. In signaling systems, a control signal. 4. In computer programming, that part of a computer instruction word that specifies the operation to be performed. 5. Loosely, a mathematical or logic operator.