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| author | user <user@clank> | 2026-09-24 12:48:51 +0200 |
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| committer | user <user@clank> | 2026-09-24 12:48:51 +0200 |
| commit | 65b53de14dc6918db39b6ee6dc032f805182daad (patch) | |
| tree | 6af7b52262321a3cbe11e1d472ca2938df2fc37e /usr/help.c | |
| parent | sh: run scripts, and >> redirection (diff) | |
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usr: ls -l, df, mv, tail, tee, sleep, help, poweroff
Filling in the core utilities the box was missing:
- ls -l: type, links and size, now that stat() exists. The screen is 40
columns, so it is "d 1 256 name", not the GNU sprawl. Sizes were
previously unknowable except one file at a time with wc -c.
- df: blocks and inodes, used and free, on the 32 KiB cart disk.
- mv: no rename syscall, so it is cp + rm - and the copy has to finish before
the source goes, or a failure loses the file.
- tail [-n N]: no seek syscall, so it streams the input through a ring of N
lines rather than jumping to the end. N is capped by that ring.
- tee: the missing half of a pipeline - `cat big | tee copy | wc -l`.
- sleep: the thing every script needs; the kernel counts 1/64 s ticks.
- help: lists every command the shell knows, walked out of the kernel's own
name table. The box previously had no way to tell you what it could do.
- poweroff: the only safe way to stop a gbos that has data on it. The cart's
battery RAM is written when the emulator exits cleanly, so killing it loses
the whole filesystem - it comes back "formatted". Found while testing /rc.
Diffstat (limited to '')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr/help.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr/help.c b/usr/help.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a68d57 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr/help.c @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +#include "gbos.h" +/* help: list every command the shell knows. The kernel owns the name table + * (sys_lookup searches it), so walk program ids and ask for each one's name - + * the box had no way to discover what it can do. */ +void main(void) { + char name[16]; + unsigned char id, col = 0; + for (id = 0; id < 64; id++) { + name[0] = 0; + progname(id, name); + name[15] = 0; + if (!name[0]) continue; + if (lookup(name) == NOFD) continue; /* not reachable from the shell */ + puts(name); + col = (unsigned char)(col + 1); + if (col == 4) { + nl(); + col = 0; + } else { + unsigned char k = strlen(name); + while (k++ < 10) putc(' '); + } + } + if (col) nl(); +} |
