Harnessing the UEFI Shell

Appendix C Programming Reference

This appendix gives guidance on the programming environment associated with the UEFI Shell. The UEFI Shell provides programmatic interfaces that are not part of the main UEFI specification. The data in this reference should provide some insight into the programmatic interactions that are possible. This appendix is intended to be a useful summary of the UEFI Shell programming environment. However, if more details are required, refer to the UEFI Shell Specification.

Script-based Programming

Even though Appendix B is really intended as the enumeration of all of the shell commands that can be executed by a script, a few aspects of the scripting environment require additional explanation beyond the descriptions of ...