Games are a great way to learn bash. mapscii.me is an interactive terminal map. Install telnet. telnet mapscii.me Over the Wire teaches bash with small challenging you can do over ssh.

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asciiquarium cbonsai -lim "$(fortune)" printf 'w\na\n' | ssh -tt nethack@alt.org 1cow=$(cowsay -l | sort -R | head -1) 2fortune -s | figlet | cowsay -nf $cow | lolcat Watch the Collatz Conjecture collapse: 1x="$(du -sc ~/.cache | tr -d '[:alpha:]' | tail -1)" 2until [ "$x" -eq "1" ]; do 3 test "$(( x % 2 ))" -eq 0 && …

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Find the path to a domain: 1domain=bad.horse 2max_hops=50 3 4tracepath -m $maximum_hops $domain If you're on Debian, you can use graph-easy and dothost to make an instant diagram: 1domain=dice.camp 2dothost $domain | graph-easy --boxart

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Requirements LaTeX Packages 1yplan $(date +%Y) > ${file}.tex 2pdflatex -output-directory=/tmp/ ${file}.tex 3mv /tmp/${file}.pdf .

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Slow the terminal to the old rates with a pipe and perl: 1ff=/tmp/bashpipe 2mkfifo $ff 3( cat $ff | perl -We 'use Time::HiRes;$|++;while(read(STDIN,$c,1)){Time::HiRes::usleep(15000);print $c;}' ) & exec &> $ff Try running dir and dir -F! Don't run interactive commands like vim or top! You can make it into a bash …

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