Built in Commands
There are several built-in commands in RunAnywhere to meet common needs in daily works.
Meta commands are used to control RunAnywhere itself. All meta commands start with ! character.
Show about window.
Show option window.
Reload user-defined commands from bundle files in the bundle depot directory.
Converts between human readable date time string and UNIX timestamp.
Usage
date [timestamp] [/e]
timestamp is a UNIX timestamp like 1664430057. If it is omitted, current date time will be used.
/e switch indicates that the result wil be displayed as a UNIX timestamp rather than a human readable string.
Example
Dispaly current date time: date
Convert current date time to a UNIX timestamp: date /e
Convert a UNIX timestamp to human readable string: date 1664430057
Show error message for specified system error code.
Usage
err <code>code is a value returned by GetLastError() function, or a HRESULT returned by some COM interfaces. Note that not all COM errors are supported.
code can be a signed/unsigned decimal, or a hexadecimal which begins with x or 0x. It will be converted to a 32bit unsigned integer to find the corresponding error message.
Example
Show system error code: err 5
Show COM error code: err 0x80070057
Show COM error code with signed decimal: err -2147024888
Display the active file content in hex and ASCII format.
Usage
hex [position] [length]
position specifies the begin position of content to display. The default is 0 if it is omitted.
length specifies the length of content to display. It is prefixed with letter l or L. The default is 128 if it is omitted. The max supported length is 4096. Use two l or L letters to specify the max length, for example ll.
Both position and length can be in decimal or hexadecimal format. Use x or 0x as prefix for hexadecimal.
Example
Display 32 bytes of content started from 8: hex 8 l32
Transform all characters in specified text to lowercase.
Usage
low <text>
If there are space characters in text, enclose it in double quotation marks ". Or use text block (press ALT+T to insert) to contain arbitrary text.
Calculate MD5 hash of the active file or a specified text.
Usage
md5 [text] [/u8] [/u16] [/c]
text is a string to be calculated. If there are space characters in text, enclose it in double quotation marks ". Or use text block (press ALT+T to insert) to contain arbitrary text. If text is omitted, the active file will be calculated instead.
/u8 , /u16 switches indicate that which encoding will be used to calculate text. They represent UTF-8 and UTF-16 respectively. UTF-8 encoding is default if none of them is specified.
/c switch indicates that to use upper-case to display the result.
Example
Calculate MD5 of specified text in UTF-16 encoding: md5 "this is a string" /u16
Calculate MD5 of the active file, displaying the result in upper-case: md5 /c
Display the color specified with RGB value.
Usage
rgb <color> [$alpha] [/a] [/d] [/f] [/x]
color is a RGB value, you can use one of the two formats to specify a color value.
Comma-separated format: R,G,B or R,G,B,A. Components can be following forms:
- Integers, range from 0 to 255.
- Floats, range from 0 to 1.0.
- Hex, range from 0x0 to 0xFF.
All components must be the same form.
Hexadecimal format: #RRGGBB or #AARRGGBB.
If A or AA is omitted, the opacity is 100%.
$alpha specifies an additional alpha value to the color. alpha can be integer, float or hex, same as comma-separated format discussed above.
/a switch indicates that to reserve the opacity. If the color specified by color which opacity is not 100%, it will be transformed to another color which opacity is 100% by default. For example, color #CC000000 will be transformed to #FF333333 and displayed in result. If you want to reserve its original opacity, you can specify /a switch. However, the appearance of color will not changed, because its opacity is combined with the white background.
/d , /f , /x switches indicate that to display the color’s RGB value in comma-separated format, and to display each component in integer, float, or hex form respectively. If none of them is specified, hexadecimal format will be used as default.
Example
Display the semitransparent color in comma-separated format: rgb 100,100,100 $0.5
Display the color in hexadecimal format, and convert it to comma-separated format: rgb #CCA7B8D9 /d
Transform all characters in specified text to uppercase.
Usage
up <text>
If there are space characters in text, enclose it in double quotation marks ". Or use text block (press ALT+T to insert) to contain arbitrary text.