Blink: List available shell commands in help

[goerz]

I'm very excited to see #281 show up in the beta!

Since I've lost track of all the various commands Nicolas has added to ios_system, it might be good to just list all of them in help inside Blink.

[goerz]

As a side node (and question to @holzschu): I thought that curl, scp, sftp were in ios_system. It would be quite nice to have these (specifically scp) to be able to transfer files to/from hosts in Blink. As Blink now shows up in the Files app, that would provide very powerful file management capabilities.

While I'm at feature requests: what about rsync? Syncing in the way that rsync does isn't something that can be wrapped through curl, or is it?

[holzschu]

curl, scp and sftp are in ios_system. If they are not available as commands in the beta, that's an issue. That may be related to the app being stripped before shipping.

[yury]

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/holzschu/ios_system/master/Resources/commandDictionary.plist | grep key :)

[goerz]

@yury Awesome, thanks!

If only that command worked from inside Blink ;-)

Joking aside: curl, scp, an sftp are in that list, and they also tab-complete inside of Blink, but then pressing Enter give "command not found". It's the same for ctags, too (not that I'd find ctags overly useful inside Blink). Anything else I've tried works.

Since this seems to be a genuine bug, and separate from wanting a list of available commands, I'll open a separate issue.

[carloscabanero]

@goerz actually Yury is right, I just run that command Inside Blink! 😄 We are not limiting the commands in any way. The issues are more like scp not integrating hosts and things like that! I'm trying to think what may be going on...

[goerz]

@carloscabanero I'm confused by your comment. You ran @yury's curl command inside Blink and it didn't give you a "command not found"? Do you mean on your version directly compiled from XCode? In that case, the commands just got lost on the way to Testflight.
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blink> curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/holzschu/ios_system/master/Resources/commandDictionary.plist
curl: command not found
~

[holzschu]

Yes, see my reply in #494: commands added using replaceCommand (that's curl) do not work in TF, but they work in sideloaded versions.

[yury]

@goerz yep, turns out TF and dev versions are different :( Will try to fix that as @holzschu has suggested.

[yury]

<tab> will list all available commands.