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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting 100 interesting shell scripting problems Post 302849535 by nickednamed on Monday 2nd of September 2013 07:50:21 AM
Old 09-02-2013
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Originally Posted by figaro
I trust you realise that all common problems and associated solutions have been posted at some site or another. I would seem a superfluous task to list the same problems again.
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You could copy examples from these sites, but it would still defeat the purpose though.
Yes, I do realise that. You can trust me Smilie

But I'm not interested in simply searching the internet for common solutions to common problems. I want a collection of interesting problems chosen for their pedagogical value. I want to use them to learn shell scripting, not just copy and paste some useful scripts.

As you stated, that would defeat the whole purpose of the operation.

Where I need help is finding the right problems. I'm not experienced enough to solve most problems (yet) and therefore I can't judge the educational value, difficulty, or even feasibility of a given problem/solution pair.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by briandanielz
I think this is interesting, and would be willing to participate if it was about shell scripting. If you look at reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer and take their model but limit it to bash / linux I think that would be interesting.
Thanks! That link is great!

That is more or less what I was looking for, but as you say, strictly shell script related. As noted above, I don't think I'm in much of a position to set challenges like those listed on the link you provided, but I'll study it and see what I can come up with.

Specifically I don't think I'll know when a task can even be done with shell scripting, or how difficult it will be.

But I was thinking about pretty much the same kind of system:
Scenario + Expected Input + Expected Output

This way the success of a given solution can be measured.

Perhaps for now I will use "the daily programmer" and try to do what I can. But if anyone knows of, or is willing to help create a shell-script-specific resource, similar to the one linked to above, I'm all ears.
 

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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