Bicycle skills - Hackdot

Re:Bicycle skills by Splines on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @11:50AM (#4323554)

It would be interesting to use a command line interface that acted like a text adventure game.

  > get file.txt
  YOU PICK UP THE FILE
  > inventory
  YOU ARE HOLDING:
  file.txt
  > gzip file.txt
  FILE.TXT HAS BEEN COMPRESSED
  > inventory
  YOU ARE HOLDING:
  file.txt (compressed)
  > drop file.txt
  YOU CAN'T PUT THAT HERE, THERE IS ALREADY A FILE.TXT HERE
  > rename file.txt file.txt.gz
  FILE.TXT HAS BEEN RENAMED
  > drop file.txt.gz
  YOU PUT DOWN FILE.TXT.GZ

Obviously not ideal, but at the very least the idea of inventory-as-clipboard would be useful on the command line.

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Re:Bicycle skills by slurgfest on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @03:27PM (#4325083)

This is interesting enough to criticize :)

OK: you can get file.txt; gzip file.txt; rename file.txt file.txt.gz; drop file.txt.gz. However, it requires a get and a drop to fiddle the inventory, which doesn't seem to do anything (you are still specifying all the filenames each time).

And I don't see a reason to generate a gzipped file of 'the same name' and then do a rename, it seems better for the new name to be an argument to the gzip operation.

All you really want is to send information from file.txt through gzip to file.txt.gz. As in "gzip < file.txt > file.txt.gz" or "cat file.txt | gzip > file.txt.gz".

But it feels like there should be cases where the clipboard/temporary holding area is much more useful than it is here, I just can't think of them?

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Re:Bicycle skills by stephengillie on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @01:21PM (#4324260)

That's a very fun idea you have there :)

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Re:Bicycle skills by PotatoEngineer on Thursday August 02, 2012 @12:32PM (#4329537)

You are in a twisty set of deeply-nested directories.

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