bruab / bashy

Web-based game designed to teach command line usage and basic Linux tools

Bashy is (to be) a web-based adventure game where players control a character exclusively through a command line.

Play it here: http://bruab.github.io/bashy/

Feel free to leave feature requests as issues!

bashy's Issues

The man page for cd should say something about the usage "cd <path>"

no man page for "wc"

need to catch JQueryTerm exceptions

print them to the console, not the terminal

No man page for cp

extra slashes

can now handle "cd ./foo" but if i say "cd ." it changes cwd from "/home" to "/home/" (for example).

need coherent strategy for handling trailing/extraneous slashes. prolly just a slash strip function that every path gets passed through before it's finalized.

cd ../.. doesn't work

need more sophisticated parsing of paths, informed by coherent policy on "path as string" vs "path as actual directory with children and stuff"

ls -R does only one level of recursion

'mv' doesn't work for directories

cheating possible on 'navigate to root' task

if you start out in root and type 'cd illegal/path', you go nowhere. this fools the Task into thinking you 'navigated to root'.

Unclear man pages

The man pages don't really have a first line that says the typical command-line. For instance:

ls [-r] [file name]

or something to let us know the order of the arguments. For sed, for instance, I never remember whether the file name is before the "s/xx/xxx/" stuff or after…

ls on a file should print the filename

not super important but that's how it works in *nix

tab completion?

Not sure if it's feasible, but of course TAB completion would be nice

"cp foo.txt whatever" produces a second file foo.txt!

ls -R now says "-R file not found"

wc with no args throws error

IRL when called with no args it takes input from stderr; i've never used it this way and not sure if it's a necessary feature for 1.0

mv not working for files now :(

Terminal window size too small

I am getting annoyed at how narrow the terminal window is… perhaps it would be possible to widen it a bit?

New feature?

We sort of need something to create a file with some content? I am not sure. I was thinking of "echo hello > foo.txt". But that gets us into the file redirection… perhaps too much. And not very powerful anyway…

tab completion not quite there

"cd /et" doesn't complete.

"cd /etc/c" does.

no echo

i thought last commit produced a proper echo via the BashyOS object, but it's not working

Ls on a directory should print the directory content, not the directory name

cd with no args should take user to /home/bashy

instead of /home

Scrollbar?

Could the terminal window be larger, and could there be some scrollbar or way to go back?

Glob!

For starters, make

cat /home/bashy/foo*

work

Better README

Hi Brian,

Really enjoyed your presentation yesterday. It would be helpful if you had link to the demo in the readme of your project.

Keep up the good work!

Tab completion not working on some browsers

Neet to test latest Chrome on Windows

'mv etc home/bashy' replaces bashy folder; should put 'etc' inside it

not stripping input?

if i type 'cd ' the command fails

Cat doesn't take file paths?

When in home, "cat bashy/foo.txt" says no such file, but "cd bashy; cat foo.txt" works

"ls -r" without argument says "-r: No such file or directory

fail on 'cd .'

try it anywhere but root and get an error, wtf

'..' behavior is inconsistent

This solution to “navigate to /etc” doesn’t work:

$ cd /etc/conf/..
Invalid path: /etc/conf/..

man doesn't work for ls, cat, head, tail

"man ls" doesn't say anything about the "-r" option

Tab completion is wonky

Works for /home/ba but not for /home/bashy/foo

grep with one arg throws error

same thing as 'wc', it takes stdin if you provide no path. i have never used this. is it useful?