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What adjective can we use to qualify something that has no (visual) Graphic User Interface?

For example, a bot, a script, a command line tool, ...

I am thinking of "headless", taken from "Chrome headless" running Google Chrome in script without graphic user interface. But I am not sure if I can use that for anything else than Chrome. Can I say, I made a "headless bot"? Also, the term is not intuitive for someone who does not know about Chrome headless.

I hope there is a better for "without GUI"

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    Surely a command line tool has a user interface - the command line.
    – KillingTime
    Nov 26, 2022 at 15:40
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    You're right, I have to precise GUI no UI (Graphic)
    – TSR
    Nov 26, 2022 at 15:41
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    "headless" is used a lot for headless modes of a program that can be used both with a gui or as a command. I've never seen it used for a program that can only be used as a command. Also, note that there's a difference between a program that can be used from the command line by calling a single command; and a program that can be used from a terminal but will start an interactive session (even if that session doesn't have graphics)
    – Stef
    Nov 26, 2022 at 15:55
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    Headless is used in Java to indicate the lack of a display device, keyboard, or mouse: oracle.com/technical-resources/articles/javase/headless.html. I seem to remember that initially some Java constructs required a display, but this changed subsequently. There is one of our moderators will know much better than me.
    – David
    Nov 26, 2022 at 15:58
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    "In the Beginning was the Command Line"
    – John Lawler
    Nov 26, 2022 at 17:23

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You would typically call it a command-line (or command line) program. This is how cURL, fzf, and jq describe themselves.

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