[U-Boot-Users] Delete all env vars except read onlys

Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-15T16:40:10Z

Uff....

After a longish discussion with Detlev we came up with a new
proposal, which hopefully is acceptable to all. We agreed that a
command name like "clearenv" or "scrubenv" or similar (which doesn't
require any arguments) might be too dangerous for the unexperienced
user why randomly types commands "just to see what happens". For
example, even if you type "erase" it will not do any damage because
arguments are missing - but "erase all" will blow away most of your
flash content without asking.

So the idea is to call the new command "environment" (or short "env");
usage would be then:

=> env clear

to clear the envrionment (except read-only variables); thsi also
allows for pretty useful additional functionality like this:

=> env default

to reset the environment to the (compiled in) default settings.

One might even consider something like

=> env clear all

to blow away the whole env, including the read-only variables.

Would that be acceptable to everybody?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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