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There are, however, at least two games that take a serious, and seriously fun, approach to teaching people how to interact with systems through text commands. And best of all, they're open source.

You may have heard of Colossal Cave Adventure , an old text-based, interactive game in the style of "choose your own adventure" books. Early computerists played these obsessively at the DOS or ProDOS command line, struggling to find the right combination of valid syntax and zany fantasy logic as interpreted by a sardonic hacker to beat the game.

Imagine how productive such a struggle could be if the challenge, aside from exploring a virtual medieval dungeon, was to recall valid Bash commands. That's the pitch for Bashcrawl , a Bash-based dungeon crawl you play by learning and using Bash commands.

In Bashcrawl, a "dungeon" is created in the form of directories and files on your computer. You explore the dungeon by using the cd command to change directory into each room of the dungeon. As you proceed through directories , you examine files with ls -F , read files with cat , set variables to collect treasure, and run scripts to fight monsters. Everything you do in the game is a valid Bash command that you can use later in real life, and playing the game provides Bash practice because the "game" is made out of actual directories and files on your computer.

Before you can play Bashcrawl, you must have Bash or Zsh on your system. To install Bashcrawl, navigate to GitLab in Firefox or your web browser of choice. On the right side of the page, click the Download icon to the right of the Find file button. In the Download pop-up menu, click the Zip button to download the latest version of the game.

Alternatively, if you want to start working in the terminal right away, you can use Git :. On a Mac, your computer may not know what application to use to open the file; you can use any text editor or LibreOffice. If you fail to read the README file, the game wins by default although it can't tell you that because you won't have played it. Bashcrawl isn't meant to be overly clever or advanced. On the contrary, it's as simple as it possibly can be in the interest of being transparent to new users.

Ideally, a new Bash user can learn some of the basics of Bash from the game, and then stumble upon the mechanics of the game, including the simple scripts that make it run, and learn still more Bash. Additionally, new Bash users can design their own dungeon by following the examples of Bashcrawl's existing content, and there's no better way to learn to code than to make a game.

Bashcrawl is meant for absolute beginners. If you use Bash on a regular basis, you'll very likely try to outsmart Bashcrawl by looking at files in ways that a beginner doesn't know yet. The game is simple: Type in as many valid commands you can think of during a given amount of time.

It sounds simple. As a Bash user, you use lots of commands every day. As a Linux user, you know where to find lists of commands; the util-linux package alone contains over commands!

The question is, are any of those commands available at your fingertips under the pressure of a countdown? This game sounds simple because it is! In principle, it's similar to flashcards, only in reverse. In practice, it's a fun way to test your knowledge and recall. And of course, it's open source, having been developed by the creators of Open Jam. Game controls. Commando 35, play times.

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