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A Sample Shell Session

Besides running stored scripts, you can also execute m interactively, for instance as a powerful calculator, or to manipulate data on your phone you cannot easily access otherwise.

To open an interactive shell, select mShell→New Shell. The shell console will prompt you for a command with m>.

After the prompt, enter the following calculation, then

Series 60:	Press the confirm button.
UIQ:	Press the button.

14 / (14 + 3) → 0.8235294118

Series 60 sample screen		UIQ sample screen

Or print a table of EUR versus USD:

rate=1.22; for eur=10 to 50 by 5 do   print eur,'EUR',rate*eur,'USD' end → 10 EUR 12.2 USD 15 EUR 18.3 USD 20 EUR 24.4 USD 25 EUR 30.5 USD ...

Interactive shells can execute arbitrary m code, including variable assignments, function declarations, module imports and so on. In addition, there are some useful functions to manipulate files:

cd	Display and change current directory.
cls	Clear the console output.
cp	Copy files.
del	Delete files.
dir	List directories.
md	Create directories.
mv	Move files.
rd	Remove directories.
ren	Rename a file.
send	Send a file ("Send As").
type	Display text file contents.

For instance, the following command searches the C: drive for JPEG (.jpg) files (/r indicates that all subdirectories should also be searched):

dir c:\*.jpg/r → c:\Nokia\Images\Backgrounds\mShellLogo.jpg ...

See also chapter * (Reference) for more information about interactive shells.

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