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Thanks for the feedback! > One recommendation: Add a "What?" accordion entry that just states in plain speech what exactly you want done, without giving away t

by zoidb 6y ago

Thanks for the feedback! > One recommendation: Add a "What?" accordion entry that just states in plain speech what exactly you want done, without giving away the how. For a few of these I read the prompt and was like "uh..." then clicked learn and was like "oh all they want is find -type f". Yeah this is a common complaint, because either the "learn" section gives away too much. I think I will just add more hints underneath the challenge like I did recently for #8 https://12days.testing.cmdchallenge.com/#/12days_8 https://12days.testing.cmdchallenge.com/#/12days_8

zoidb 6y ago
> Also, small nit, "find ./place-for-pipers -type f -name "piper" | xargs grep -i 'piping'" wasn't accepted due to the filenames being prefixed to the output. I feel like this is one of the benefits of piping it all through a single grep (grep, knowing the context of multiple input files, gives you useful output). Obviously you can massage both solutions to give the others' text output, but I just felt a little cheated that my response wasn't marked correct. Hm, yeah we can probably just search for the filenames and ignore everything else to make it a little more forgiving.
- ecliptik 6y ago
  you can add -h to grep, which won't print the filenames (this is what I did an it accepted the answer).