AROS Shell

Many common operations can be done using mouse. Sometimes it is faster and easier to do it using mouse. You can start shell from WBDock. Behavior is similar to AMIGADOS Shell. Drag&Dropo of a file or directory puts in full path and Arrow Up shows last input again.

AMIGADOS commands

AROS aims to reimplementate 3.1.. This also includes the DOS commands, that are mostly available identical in AROS 68k. Additional I have added reimplementations (mostly from aminet) to close possible missing commands. So in most cases AROS Shell should feel and behave like AMIGADOS Shell and include more or less the same commands with same syntax. If there are any commands missing, please report it to me and I will look at at.

You find a overview of AROS commands here

Additional Commands

I have invested much time to add commands not being integrated before. Main Source was aminet. So I will list and describe commands added that are interesting to users. In some cases I already use it in the environment, f.e. players or converters so you can use them by mouse, in other cases they are pure interesting to be used by keyboard. I will try to explain them on this page.

Important Commands

I have created several commands who active or deactivate patches, bootscreen or change desktop. With "Wanderer", "Scalos" and "Magellan" and then "reboot" you can change the desktop. With "bootscreenon" and "bootscreenoff" you define if a bootscreen is shown or not. "passwordon" and "passwordoff" turns on password page during startup. "Stackattackon", "Stackattackoff", "blazewcpon", "blazewcpoff", "copymemaison", "copymemaisoff", "restrackeron" and "restrackeroff" turns patches on and off. "iconlibon" and "incoliboff" turns new icon lib on and off. "limpidclockon" and "limpidclockoff" turns limpidclock on and off on magellan. Limpidclock sometimes affects other software so it is turned off by default.

Included vommands from AmigaOS 3.1 / more details here

addbuffers
adddatatypes
alias
ask
assign
avail
break
calculator
cd
changetaskpri
clock
colors
conclip
copy
cpu
date
delete
dir
diskchange
display
echo
ed
edit
else
endcli
endif
endshell
endskip
eval
execute
failat
fault
filenote
fixfonts
font
format
get
getenv
icontrol
iconx
if
info
input
install
iprefs
join
lab
list
loadwb
locale
lock
makedir
makelink
memacs
more
mount
multiview
newcli
newshell
palette
path
pointer
printer
prompt
protect
quit
relabel
rename
requestchoice
requestfile
resident
run
screenmode
search
serial
set
setclock
setdate
setenv
setfont
setkeyboard
setpatch
skip
sort
sound
stack
status
time
type
unalias
unset
unsetenv
version
wait
which
why