Of course the Mac was created in part as sort of a backlash against the command line interface of DOS (typing long strings of complicated computing commands, not pointing and clicking with a mouse like we're used to now), though Mac OS X now boasts a Unix Shell terminal with its own command line interface.

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Sqlmap, also free and billed as an off-the-shelf, penetration-testing tool, uses a command-line interface and requires a little more programming experience to use.

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The command-line interface with its forbidding prompt and blinking cursor required mastering a whole catechism of arcane instructions that only a priesthood of computerdom could cherish.

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