New commands

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I'm going to make a few new command for BoneOS.

• logname - prints current login name
• man - help manual
• pwd - print current working directory
• uname - print system info
• watch - execute a program periodically
• time - get current time for process
• date - get current date
• whatis - displays a one line description of a command
• whoami - just like logname prints the current user
• uptime - displays total time since the computer started
• alias - makes another temporary name for a command till the terminal is closed
• shutdown - already implemented by 'poweroff', but need some more improvements
• tldr - simplified man pages, not installed by default

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If anyone has more ideas for commands, please post a comment, and if possible, I will add it to the list.

[srifqi]

time - check and set time

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@srifqi I'm afraid that is not possible right now. We have no way to get UTC time in the OS, and if we start the clock once the OS starts, it will be way too inaccurate.

[sajadbanooie]

How about RTC?

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@sajadbanooie you mean a clock which starts when the OS boots up?

[sajadbanooie]

CMOS RTC(real time clock)
http://wiki.osdev.org/CMOS#The_Real-Time_Clock

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@sajadbanooie I see that, but the current state of the OS is not as advanced to do all that.

[sajadbanooie]

it doesn't require any thing specific does it?

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@sajadbanooie how exactly will the OS tick the clock when the OS is not running? Most of us run it using vbox or qemu, not on a real computer.

If you can implement it, it'll be great, but AFAIK, it cannot be implemented in the current state of the OS.

[sajadbanooie]

AFAIK RTC updates the clock it self.so that is not the job of OS.

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@sajadbanooie I really don't know much about an RTC, so it would be great if you could implement it, but I can't.