UNIX Pipe Card Game: Educational Tool for Teaching Command Line Skills to Children
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Summary
The article describes a card game designed to teach children how to combine UNIX commands through pipes. The game assumes parents have basic knowledge of UNIX commands like cat, grep, tail, head, wc, sort, and uniq, and suggests using jslinux in a browser if no UNIX system is available. The game is priced at €5.00 (currently sold out) and has an expansion pack available for more advanced play. An example game round demonstrates how to solve a task like printing the most common line from a file using command combinations.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledThis is a card game for teaching kids how to combine unix commands through pipes.
The parent should show also show those commands in action the computer as well, if you do not have any UNIX system you can use jslinux in your browser.
If you want to play the more difficult version, you can also get the Expansion pack: UNIX Pipe Game - Process Substitution
task: print the most common line from a fil
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