[SOLVED] Is there a way to locate the dot home file that corresponds to a program or game?

273 · 07-19-2017, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by rknichols

A game's "high score" file would not be in any user's home directory. That information is global to all users on the system. Look elsewhere.

The user's home on most installs I see is set to world readable by default and I don't see any files in the listing on the Debian packages website which look like saved game files.
I suspect lsof looped in a terminal window, grepping the program name, while the program is running will work fine?

linustalman · 07-20-2017, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by IsaacKuo

The method I suggest does not require beating a high score. It only requires knowing a current high score, and assuming it is stored somewhere in plain text.

For example, if a current high score is 50200, use:

Code:

grep -H -R 50200 ~/.??*

Ah, I see. Ok, I tried:
$ grep -H -R 83333 ~/.??*

No joy.

IsaacKuo · 07-20-2017, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by linustalman

Ah, I see. Ok, I tried:
$ grep -H -R 83333 ~/.??*

No joy.

I guess the suggestion someone else made that it's not stored in your home directory may be correct, then. Doing a search on /etc and /usr instead of ~ might find it...

linustalman · 07-20-2017, 02:49 PM

I also looked in /var/games - it's not there. But perhaps it'd appear there if I managed to set a new high score?

linustalman · 07-20-2017, 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rknichols

A game's "high score" file would not be in any user's home directory. That information is global to all users on the system. Look elsewhere.

Per-user configuration for that game appears to be in ~/.parallelrealities/virusKiller/ .

A bit of the puzzle has been solved. Thank you.

!!! · 07-20-2017, 03:12 PM

Try: (from http://src.gnu-darwin.org/ports/game...oc/manual.html )
tar xzf viruskiller-0.1-1.tar.gz;cd viruskiller-0.1-1;find . -type f -exec grep -i high {} \;
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/viruskiller

linustalman · 07-22-2017, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by !!!

Try: (from http://src.gnu-darwin.org/ports/game...oc/manual.html )
tar xzf viruskiller-0.1-1.tar.gz;cd viruskiller-0.1-1;find . -type f -exec grep -i high {} \;
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/viruskiller

Hi.

What does that do?

linustalman · 07-22-2017, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IsaacKuo

I guess the suggestion someone else made that it's not stored in your home directory may be correct, then. Doing a search on /etc and /usr instead of ~ might find it...

Hi Isaac.

I looked there - no luck.

scasey · 07-22-2017, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by !!!

Try: (from http://src.gnu-darwin.org/ports/game...oc/manual.html )

also from that link:

Code:

Default installation target is /usr/games for the binary and /usr/share/games for the data

scasey · 07-22-2017, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by linustalman

Hi Isaac.

I looked there - no luck.

Why are you presuming that the data is in a hidden file? Try

Code:

grep -H -R 83333 /usr/share/games/*

rknichols · 07-22-2017, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scasey

Try

Code:

grep -H -R 83333 /usr/share/games/*

Files that are updated during operation are not normally kept under /usr. /usr/share is potentially a read-only share among multiple systems, and so is not a suitable location for a game's high score file.

I can't track this down myself because the game just segfaults in my Debian 8 VM.

scasey · 07-22-2017, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rknichols

Files that are updated during operation are not normally kept under /usr. /usr/share is potentially a read-only share among multiple systems, and so is not a suitable location for a game's high score file.

I can't track this down myself because the game just segfaults in my Debian 8 VM.

That's probably true. I was just going by the "Default installation target is ... /usr/share/games for the data" from the manual link that !!! provided. More to my point, the grep commands posted so far have presumed that the file is hidden. I'm suggesting it might not be.

I can't track it down either 'cause all my currently available servers have no GUI. Working on that.

norobro · 07-22-2017, 04:09 PM

I got the game to run but the initial high scores are hard coded and to make the top ten you have to score >250,000. https://sources.debian.net/src/virus...eData.cpp/#L53

As rknichols mentioned the scores are stored in "~/.parallelrealities/viruskiller/config". It's a binary file.
https://sources.debian.net/src/virus...init.cpp/#L120
https://sources.debian.net/src/virus...init.cpp/#L198

linustalman · 07-24-2017, 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scasey

Why are you presuming that the data is in a hidden file? Try

Code:

grep -H -R 83333 /usr/share/games/*

Hi Sean.

In /usr/share/games/ there's a file called 'viruskiller.pak' - I doubt that's the high score.

linustalman · 07-24-2017, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by norobro

I got the game to run but the initial high scores are hard coded and to make the top ten you have to score >250,000. https://sources.debian.net/src/virus...eData.cpp/#L53

As rknichols mentioned the scores are stored in "~/.parallelrealities/viruskiller/config". It's a binary file.
https://sources.debian.net/src/virus...init.cpp/#L120
https://sources.debian.net/src/virus...init.cpp/#L198

Cheers norobro & rknichols.