Fluent in shell, but cultural context is more difficult, especially with pipers, had to do guess work.
Twelve Days of Shell
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#22Viewing the page with Safari 26.1 the questions stopped showing up after the second challenge. I was left with only Learn and View Solutions, which was not very fun since both showed a form of the answer. TL;DR: The page stopped loading properly.
> Safari [..] The page stopped loading properly.
Who would've guessed...
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#23Terrible. You cannot 'ls' if ls is not the right answer. Completely useless.
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#24Looks nice but it's rejecting valid commands as incorrect. Like when it told me to search for "laugh" I ran
grep laugh *
grep laugh night-before-christmas.txt
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#25The way that worked for me to properly learn shell is to do a non-shell project with it.
Like, do a complex background worker for a web server that listens to a socket, does complicated stuff, exports functions (if in Bash), etc.
You don't have to use it afterwards. The value is in the journey. It's fun :)
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#26How would one make a true shell in a website like this one? (As in, is there an open source library to host an interactive shell for educational purposes - eg codecademy)
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#27I've recently reached a point where I feel I've reached an upper limit with how much efficiency I can extract from my usual toolset/editors. So I've gone on a journey where I'm finally exploring tools that make living in the command line a productive and pleasant experience for me. I've long put off learning or even exploring tmux or learning more than a few handful of vim keybinds. So I started digging into configur…
Forget cheatsheets, tweets, videos, books, etc. Vim comes with a very well made built-in tutorial that will gently pull you toward maximum efficiency.
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#28I think the instructions need more detail. 'Five lines that start with "the"' doesn't scream 'or "The", or "thE"' to me...
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#29Looks nice but it's rejecting valid commands as incorrect. Like when it told me to search for "laugh" I ran grep laugh * There's only one file in the directory. So that's a correct answer but the game wants me to run grep laugh night-before-christmas.txt It's like those weird interviewers who have a specific answer in mind and they'll accept nothing other than the answer they have in mind.
Or cat night-before-christmas.txt | grep laugh
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#30Fluent in shell, but cultural context is more difficult, especially with pipers, had to do guess work.
I think that's part of the fun :)