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Hey this doesn’t work : first solution “ls -al” which I use all the time to list directories was rejected in the second question I used awk and was rejected it

by derrida 10mo ago

Hey this doesn’t work : first solution “ls -al” which I use all the time to list directories was rejected in the second question I used awk and was rejected it expected grep I think a beginner could be doing it right but then be told they are wrong as you aren’t evaluating actual commands Best would be to like actually run it* and then check solutions out with awk that it pattern matches * aka give me a shell ok worth a try lol xD Edit: also I was expecting something a bit more challenging (also that is correct) to like exercise the brain for those of us that use shell (this is hacker news) something that takes a few minutes and isn’t just commands used all the time

comprev 10mo ago
"ls" shows only visible files whereas "ls -a" also displays those starting with a dot. Given the question doesn't that make your answer the correct one?
- derrida 10mo ago
  It accepts ls -a as and answer and ls -l but not ls -al
- zenoprax 10mo ago
  `la -A` will also show hidden files but excludes the "." and ".." I prefer that way in theory but a capital "A" is not as quick/easy to type.
Retr0id 10mo ago
It does seem to actually run the submitted commands, and awk is there.
- derrida 10mo ago
  Second question > awk '/^laugh/ { print $0 }' night-before-christmas.txt
  - aidenn0 10mo ago
    Get rid of the caret and it works; it wants lines with laugh, not lines that start with laugh,
    - derrida 10mo ago
      Ah cheers thanks, my stupid! (And what's worse - wasted some others attention and even thought what someone took time to create was at fault!) However thankful for kind directness there.
prmoustache 10mo ago
it also doesn't accept the find command.