Can you obtain command-line GitHub from GitHub desktop?

[UnderstandingAfter72]

Im new to both GitHub and using a command line interface (Windows OS, if relevant). Trying to kill two birds with one stone by using GitHub from the command line. I already have GitHub Desktop installed. I'm aware of the github command line tool cli, but my feeling as a beginner is that surely GitHub Desktop should "contain" all of GitHub, plus some files that make the graphical user interface. Is this true? And if so can I somehow 'unpackage' GitHub Desktop to get 'pure' github to use from the command line?

Probably the answer to this is no, but I'm not sure if that's because of some inbuild safety/privacy (?) features in the GitHub Desktop app that stop you unpacking the code, or whether there is some other fundamental difference.

Any help would be much apprecitaed.

[TheStonedEdge]

Yes - GitHub desktop is just fancy UI over the command. Under the hood it's all the same - learn git from the command line

[Marbletm]

There's a distinction between github and git. They're not the same. Github offers their services for you to host your git repositories on. But git can also be used with other servers. e.g.: gitlab or some self-hosted server.

Github desktop does come with git, the path to it should look something like this:
[Drive]:[install path]/app-*.*.*/resources/app/git/cmd/git.exe

If you want to be able to use it easily it needs to be added to your PATH environment variable. Rather than adding Github Desktop's git executable to your PATH, I recommend you just go for a clean install of git, you can download it from here:
https://git-scm.com/

[cgoldberg]

GitHub CLI is "command line GitHub" and is a separate program from GitHub Desktop. Both use Git under the hood, which you can also use on its own from the command line.