On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:46:49AM +0800, Bean wrote: > These ideas are mostly from grub4dos, I think they can be useful in GRUB2. > > 1. cat > > In addition to the current function, cat can also generate hexadecimal dump, > and it can optionally choose the range of bytes to display. For example: > > cat [--hex] [--skip=S] [--length=L] FILE
Wouldn't it be more consistent to call it: od [-j|--skip-bytes=S] [-N|--read-bytes=L] FILE > Sometimes it's useful to dump the content of physical memory, it can be > implemented with a special option --mem. For example, > > cat [--mem] [--skip=S] [--length=L] base_address > > It can also be implemented with virtual device (md). For example, > > cat --hex (md)+2 That sounds much cleaner IMHO. But IIRC (md) is already in use by the RAID/LVM stuff ? > 2. find > > Find command is missing in GRUB2. It's used to find the device which contains > a certain file. > > find [--set=var_name] FILENAME We have this already, only with different name: search --set /file (root is implicit, but it can be overriden) -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
