button.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. |
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14 / (14 + 3) → 0.8235294118
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Or print a table of EUR versus USD:
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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):
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dir c:\*.jpg/r → c:\Nokia\Images\Backgrounds\mShellLogo.jpg
... |
See also chapter * (Reference) for more information about interactive shells.