Escape Ed

Challenge

The initial dialog with Bushy Evergreen:

Bushy Evergreen
Hi, I'm Bushy Evergreen. Welcome to Elf U!
I'm glad you're here. I'm the target of a terrible trick.
Pepper Minstix is at it again, sticking me in a text editor.
Pepper is forcing me to learn ed.
Even the hint is ugly. Why can't I just use Gedit?
Please help me just quit the grinchy thing.

The hint from our badge:

ed Editor Basics
From: Bushy Evergreen
Ed Is The Standard Text Editor

The banner page from the terminal challenge:

Solution

To exit the Ed editor, press q then ENTER

Success!. The following output was displayed:

Loading, please wait......
You did it! Congratulations!

Hints

Bushy Evergreen provides the following hint in his dialog after solving the terminal challenge:

Bushy Evergreen
Wow, that was much easier than I'd thought.
Maybe I don't need a clunky GUI after all!
Have you taken a look at the password spray attack artifacts?
I'll bet that DeepBlueCLI tool is helpful.
You can check it out on GitHub.
It was written by that Eric Conrad.
He lives in Maine - not too far from here!

The following hints were unlocked in our badge:

Deep Blue CLI Posting
From: Bushy Evergreen
Eric Conrad on DeepBlueCLI

Deep Blue CLI on Github
From: Bushy Evergreen
Github page for DeepBlueCLI