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phyver / GameShell

a game to learn (or teach) how to use standard commands in a Unix shell
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[suggestion] - Additional missions ideas #97

Closed Aierbote closed 2 years ago

Aierbote commented 2 years ago

First thing first, I have finished all the mission (except skipped ones) . It was a wonderful experience, and I'm glad this way I learnt something new in a fun way

After completing the game I realized I could be reading from time to time my journal.txt and decided to generate a hard link it and it worked. While I loaded my gameshell-save.sh in another terminal window I ran $ sudo ln gameshell/World/Forest/Hut/Chest/journal.txt

And this gave the idea that there should be a couple of missions about creating hard link and a symlink (aka soft link) and to get the differences between those two with all pros and cons (for example I just read about dangling soft link and the trouble of recreating a file with the same name of the previous soft linked file). So maybe mentioning inodes too.

It would be nice to have more examples of useful ctrl hotkeys in terminal (discovering ^L was fantastic, especially in that mission... it saved my sanity) and for now I can just think of ^R and ^Z (couldn't it be an alternative to the mission of background command COMMAND & that was skipped?)

phyver commented 2 years ago

Glad you liked it!

Having missions about symbolic links has been in my TODO list for a long time: making shortcuts, portals or secret passages would fit right in GameShell!

I'm not so sure about hardlinks. They're not available on all filesystems, and to tell the truth, I don't find them very useful. (I've only really used them a couple of times, indirectly with cp -al, or when explaining them to students!)

There are several other ideas in the file doc/mission_ideas.md.