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This page is for brainstorming a scripting language for gPXE. === Commands === The current gPXE shell strips whitespace from a line and splits into an ''argv[]'' array: <code> command [arg1 [arg2 [arg3 ...]]] </code> === Variables === Currently, settings like the IP address and boot filename should be available as variables. In the future, scripts should be able to create temporary variables as scratch space. <code> set net0/ip 192.168.0.1 set my_ip 10.0.0.15 show net0/netmask clear net0/gateway </code> We need variable expansion: <code> dhcp ${my_iface} </code> "References" could work like this: <code> set ref_to_ip net0/ip show ${ref_to_ip} => ...value of net0/ip... </code> === Arithmetic === === String manipulation ===
