The Command Line Murders

Good fun, I'm going to hope that using ipython still qualifies, and it made things much easier by letting you define functions that join some ad-hoc datasets to look for matches, or read particular files. A similar approach to different puzzles by Peter Norvig[1] Other useful (and perhaps less common) utilities I used were 'q'[2], and the standard unix 'comm(1)'[3] [1] http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Fred%20Bu... http://norvig.com/sudoku.html [2] https://harelba.github.io/q/ - sqlite text…

A lot of the code that I write looks like a crime-scene.

Forget everything you learned in school, rookie. Your real training begins today. You want to use your fancy coreutils and crack this case the glamorous way, or do you want to make your arrest quota for the month and keep your job? $ grep -ir confess interviews/ And if that doesn’t work: $ echo “I, John Doe of $address, of sound state of mind confess to the killing of…” >interviews/interview-$RANDOM Take him away, boys!

Solving a murder using grep, sed, and awk! Ok, they actually suggest simpler tools, like head and tail, but it still is pretty fun. Obligatory xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/208/