So, I'm of course new to this OS. I'm very familiar with the command line awk,sed,bash, and the likes of. I read about AmigaDOS commands. Are these commands compatible with this OS? Or is there another subset of commands that are used with this OS in a different way? By the way my Powermac just arrived(yeeaaahhh!). So, I'm eager to try MorphOS out on the 2.3GHz A1047.

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You are welcome!
It's pretty compatible
Days ago I read about AmigaDOS's search, even the ctrl-d signal worked

MorphOS and AmigaDOS commands and shell do work in the same way. Everything you read from AmigaDOS manuals do work with MorphOS too.

MorphOS also has native versions of all standard AmigaDOS commands, and some of them have some new options too.

Here's a half finished documentation of the default MorphOS commands: http://library.morph.zone/Shell_Commands
Pattern matching is good to learn too: http://library.morph.zone/Pattern_matching

If you want "man" kind of documentation for shell, you could install Help command, although it isn't updated for the current MorphOS version it's still nice help for basic commands: http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/Help

You can also use legacy 68k commands under MorphOS just fine if you're missing some. Just copy the 68k command to SYS:C/ on MorphOS.


[ Edited by jPV 13.08.2015 - 18:46 ]

I think he comes from the Unix world because awk, sed and so on are typical Unix commands but not Amiga commands. On MOS you can use them if you install the SDK.

The Help utility was cool but sadly it is much outdated. Is there any chance that the author reactivates it?

> Is there any chance that the author reactivates it?

Very unlikely but you can always ask him:

https://morph.zone/users/490.html

I used Help's text as a base material in Shell Commands descriptions in Library, and I contacted the author with email for the permission to do so. I also asked if he would have any interest to continue the development, but he said that he doesn't have any plans for it since he doesn't have any access to MorphOS machine anymore. He also said that if he can find the sources, he might release them.

Later we had some talk with Itix and he threw an idea if he'd ask a permission to include the program to MorphOS itself, but I don't know if that went forward in any level... finding the source code would be required for that at least.

It shouldn't be a problem to write a script which shows the help text of your Shell Commands descriptions (copied as ascii text to f.e. Help:<language>/ShellCommands/).
Somethinge like this:
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Now, you only need to convert the html help descriptions as ascii text;)

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Thanks that's what I needed.

I'm new to morphos too, I found that the software sdk had a lot of tools I was used to (ls, grep etc) installed as part of the supporting packages. I see connor has mentioned this already.
I have to get around to and install gvim next, so it can be set up like my classic amiga although ed is pretty workable as a gui based editor and there is the classic cygnus ed for morphos :)


[ Edited by MrFluffy 15.08.2015 - 11:08 ]

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Yeah, CEd works nicely too, but MorphOS also comes with a modern and powerful text editor called Scribble. You can find it in your SYS:Applications/Scribble/ dir.

Hi jPV, understood. I liked ced because it was one of the few things supporting vertical copy and paste back on my a500 which when your doing asm with lots of copper or table work is handy. Vi does that too. Ive not used scribble to see if it brings anything new to the table yet but I'll give it a try when I have time.

There is a morphos port of vim if the op needs it, but you have to mail the guy and ask nicely for his software a cd or some such nonsense. So I installed the os4 package from aminet and its working just fine for me on 3.9. If anyone has a link to a repo with the vim for morphos package in it, please correct me.

> I installed the os4 package from aminet and its working just fine for me on 3.9.

You mean http://aminet.net/package/text/edit/vim-bin for OS4 runs on MorphOS? Is that via OS4Emu?

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Scribble also supports vertical copy and uses the same clipboard format as CED for that so you can copy and paste vertical segments between the two if you want ;)

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CYGD chunk support, smart