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Comment by zoidb | Hacker News Reader

> What if you're ssh'd into a machine, you're in your trusty bash shell, but unfortunately you cannot spawn any new processes because literally all other pids are taken. What do you do?

A long ago for fun I created an interactive website to explore this type of scenario. https://oops.cmdchallenge.com

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  "echo *" doesn't list ALL files in the directory. "echo .* *" does.

It does list all files if you run

  set -O dotglob

This is cool, but once I beat it, it just brought me back to the first step and wouldn't let me see the others. That's frustrating because I wanted to check out the "View Solutions" lists for the other steps to see what other approaches I could have taken.

thanks! if you click on the emojis you can navigate to the previous problems.

oh! i noticed the emojis but it did not occur to me that it was a navigational control

i would begin to panic and think wtf why am i in this uber-grey-beard-dev-sys-ops interview??? im just a data engineer

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