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Posted by zoidb 12/8/2025

Twelve Days of Shell(12days.cmdchallenge.com)
258 points | 86 commentspage 3
benterix 12/8/2025|
It would be nice if the instructions spelled out what to do, then I could do it. Otherwise I have to guess what author meant. But all in, a nice small exercise, thanks!
pstoll 12/8/2025||
Neat idea à la regex golf.

But doesn’t seem to do enough shell escaping or correctly. Also seems underspecified, ie “find 5 lines starting with ‘the” doesn’t require a pipe to head -5.

oneeyedpigeon 12/8/2025|
> find 5 lines

Especially since the previous two questions used head/tail. IMO, the wording would be better as "find all the lines" since that's what the command does.

einpoklum 12/8/2025||
I tried to grep for "♫ piping ♫" at some point and the website got stuck. I wonder what it was trying to do...

other than that - nice exercise for newbie shell dabblers :-)

mejthemage 12/8/2025||
I would love something like this that puts me in my own shell. Like a light CTF that is really just shell commands rather than breaking into a VM
mejthemage 12/8/2025|
I went searching and realized overthewire has a bash specific course called "Bandit". Still a VM you SSH to
chillfox 12/8/2025||
That's a nice little challenge.

I did have some issues with Day 11 figuring out what it wanted, but overall it was fun.

lozf 12/8/2025||
If you like things like this you'll probably enjoy

     b64(r13(MaE3o3OmYz5yqPNtqUu0VPOxnJpX))
tensility 12/11/2025||
Not giving real output is a complete fail. Try again.
franticgecko3 12/8/2025||
Tab complete is completely broken on Firefox mobile (Android)
sva_ 12/8/2025||
Cool idea but very opinionated and no room for variation
ParadisoShlee 12/8/2025|
I assumed this was some kind of hacking challenge.
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