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QuizAPI-BASH

This is a BASH wrapper for the quizapi.io API

Prerequisites

An API Key for the Quiz API, you can get it totally for free for developers:

https://quizapi.io/clientarea/settings/token

jq installed, if you try to run the script without having jq installed you will get the following message:

The jq command is required! Please install it and then try again

Installation

Download the script:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QuizApi/QuizAPI-BASH/master/quiz.sh

Make the script executable:

chmod +x quiz.sh

Set your QuizAPI key as an env variable:

export API_KEY=your_api_key_here

Usage

To run the script just run the following:

./quiz.sh -a ${API_KEY}

You will get to an interactive quiz menu where you can select multiple answers.

The output will look like this:

There is only 1 correct answer!

"Following Docker command: docker commit -m \"My first update\" container_ID user_name/repository_name  is used to:"
  1 ) "Activate default VM machine"
  2+) "Commit changes done in a Docker image"
  3 ) "Build an image"
  4 ) "Access a running container"
"Commit changes done in a Docker image" was checked
Check an option (again to uncheck, ENTER when done):

Selected was:  "Commit changes done in a Docker image"
Correct: is:  "Commit changes done in a Docker image"
Correct Answer

Arguments

The script accepts the following arguments:

quiz.sh -a API_KEY [-c Category] [-d Difficulty] [-t Tags]

-c - get questions only for a specific category
-d - get questions only for a specific difficulty (Easy, Medium and Hard)
-t - get questions for a specific topic/tag, this lets you combine multiple topics