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authorTom Rini <[email protected]>2021-06-29 11:25:39 -0400
committerTom Rini <[email protected]>2021-06-29 11:25:39 -0400
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Merge tag 'efi-2021-07-rc5-2' of https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-efi
Pull request for efi-2021-07-rc5-2 Documentation: * man-page for askenv bug fixes * correct display of BootOrder in efidebug command * do not allow TPL_HIGH_LEVEL for CreateEvent(Ex) * correct handling of unknown properties in SMBIOS tables
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+:
+
+askenv command
+===============
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+::
+
+ askenv name [message] [size]
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+Display message and get environment variable name of max size characters
+from stdin.
+
+name
+ name of the environment variable
+
+message
+ message is displayed while the command waits for the value to be
+ entered from stdin.if no message is specified,a default message
+ "Please enter name:" will be displayed.
+
+size
+ maximum number of characters that will be stored in environment
+ variable name.this is in decimal number format (unlike in
+ other commands where size values are in hexa-decimal). Default
+ value of size is 1023 (CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE - 1).
+
+Example
+-------
+
+Value of a environment variable env1 without message and size parameters:
+
+::
+
+ => askenv env1;echo $?
+ Please enter 'env1': val1
+ 0
+ => printenv env1
+ env1=val1
+
+Value of a environment variable env2 with message and size parameters:
+
+::
+
+ => askenv env2 Please type-in a value for env2: 10;echo $?
+ Please type-in a value for env2: 1234567890123
+ 0
+ => printenv env2
+ env2=1234567890
+
+Value of a environment variable env3 with size parameter only:
+
+::
+
+ => askenv env3 10;echo $?
+ Please enter 'env3': val3
+ 0
+ => printenv env3
+ env3=val3
+
+Return Value of askenv command, when used without any other arguments:
+
+::
+
+ => askenv;echo $?
+ askenv - get environment variables from stdin
+
+ Usage:
+ askenv name [message] [size]
+ - display 'message' and get environment variable 'name' from stdin (max 'size' chars)
+ 1
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+The askenv command is only available if CMD_ASKENV=y
+
+Return value
+------------
+
+The return value $? is set to 0 (true).
+If no other arguments are specified (along with askenv), it is set to 1 (false).
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@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Shell commands
:maxdepth: 1
addrmap
+ askenv
base
bootefi
booti