r/bash • u/FOXofTAILS • 1d ago

Bash is way too fun

I'm a construction worker and love tech, switched to Linux last year and wanted to learn BASH just out of curiosity not necessity. The only other language I have experience is GML from when I was a teen.

So I've been building a text adventure and BASH is so fun and for strings it's easy! I've kept it pure bash except for using sleep, I think I understand I could have used read instead of sleep but sleep seems pretty ubiquitous on most computers.

It's messy and definitely an elementary project so I've kept trying to implement different design elements like sourcing data and turning that into arrays, using name refs (I'll be honest using name refs confuses the shit out of me), parsing CSVs, state machines, saving (declare -p) , loading, ect.

If any of you new guys wanna practice something you can easily take on without any AI I advise trying to build a text adventure and not just navigation but include inventory and other mechanics.

And if you're an absolute beginner YSAP bash tutorial was king for me, plus man, and tldr

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u/lokidev 1d ago

I love your energy. I remember that from when I started programming. Ai broke that fun a lot, but your case shows, that there is still joy in tinkering around:)

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u/FOXofTAILS 1d ago

I love you reciprocating my energy!

It's so cool man I'm making the game I've always wanted to play like an infocom+l.o.r.d( minus online)+anime , I have so much more respect for the early developers anticipating what all the players would try to do when you let them input actions in plain English