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I have a teenage son that is thinking about becoming a programmer. I've been teaching him some things like the command line, git, etc. Would someone with just a starting familiarity with the command line be able to play the game?

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cat, head, tail, piping and lots of grep is enough to solve the mystery. It might require reading --help pages though if he is not familiar with some of the options of these commands, which would be quite educational anyway.

So I'd say go for it!

The included cheatsheet includes a fair bit and all the recommended tools you'd need to solve the mystery.

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