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authoruser <user@clank>2026-09-24 12:48:51 +0200
committeruser <user@clank>2026-09-24 12:48:51 +0200
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parentsh: 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.
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+#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();
+}