Pre-registration is required to participate in the contest.

Applications are accepted on the official website of the competition https://bash-contest-2019.pro/en starting from the 29th of March 2019 and continues until midnight on the 12th of April 2019. Moscow time.

The contest opens on April 13th 2019 at 09: 00. At this time list of tasks becomes available on the contest website https://bash-contest-2019.pro/en together with forms for results upload. The competition finishes on April 14th 2019 at 21:00. No results are accepted after this time.

The participants must solve the given tasks using BASH. The solutions should be uploaded in format of a txt file in the field below each task. Two-stage analysis process of the uploaded solutions starts right after the end of the contest.

At the first stage, the automatic system discards solutions that do not match the expected results.

At the second stage Refereeing Commission evaluates the decisions according to the following criteria:

• Simplicity of the solution
• Efficiency (speed of operation)
• Originality
• Usage of external utilities (solutions with builtin BASH utilities will be rated higher)