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Twelve Days of Shell

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256 points zoidb | 3 comments | 08 Dec 25 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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derrida ◴[08 Dec 25 11:00 UTC] No.46190909[source]▶
Hey this doesn’t work : first solution “ls -al” which I use all the time to list directories was rejected in the second question I used awk and was rejected it expected grep

I think a beginner could be doing it right but then be told they are wrong as you aren’t evaluating actual commands

Best would be to like actually run it* and then check solutions out with awk that it pattern matches

* aka give me a shell ok worth a try lol xD

Edit: also I was expecting something a bit more challenging (also that is correct) to like exercise the brain for those of us that use shell (this is hacker news) something that takes a few minutes and isn’t just commands used all the time

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Retr0id ◴[08 Dec 25 14:41 UTC] No.46192742[source]▶
It does seem to actually run the submitted commands, and awk is there.
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1. derrida ◴[08 Dec 25 15:28 UTC] No.46193338[source]▶
Second question

> awk '/^laugh/ { print $0 }' night-before-christmas.txt

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2. aidenn0 ◴[08 Dec 25 15:35 UTC] No.46193442[source]▶
Get rid of the caret and it works; it wants lines with laugh, not lines that start with laugh,
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3. derrida ◴[12 Dec 25 05:07 UTC] No.46241042[source]▶
Ah cheers thanks, my stupid! (And what's worse - wasted some others attention and even thought what someone took time to create was at fault!) However thankful for kind directness there.