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Re:Show HN: Command Line Challenge by zokier on Thursday January 26, 2017 @02:28PM (#13494441)
> You should support bash's double-star wildcard, which works recursively

It depends on what the educational goals are, but alternatively OP could swing on the opposite direction and go with a very vanilla POSIX sh style shell (maybe dash) to discourage bashisms.

I might of course be bit biased because `find` is one of my favorite utils (generally with -exec instead of -print0|xargs -0) and I practically never use newfangled doublestar globbing

Re:Show HN: Command Line Challenge by JoshTriplett on Thursday January 26, 2017 @03:56PM (#13495181)
Teaching efficient bash usage and teaching portable shell scripting seem related but distinct. This challenge specifically mentions that it uses bash.
Re:Show HN: Command Line Challenge by zokier on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:24PM (#13495357)
Yes sure, I wasn't trying to say that going full bash is a bad thing. I was merely presenting an alternative.