Overview

Teaching: min
Exercises: min

Questions

• How to look at files and folders using the shell?

• How are files and folders organized on this computer?

• How to create folders and files?

• How do I run programs using the shell?

• What is a shell script and how do I write one?

Objectives

Topics:

Recommendation: for a novice audience, go through 1,2,3 in the shell-novice lesson

Also convey: The shell is more than a way to look at files or folders. It’s also a way to run programs.

Programs may expect data as input and may produce data as output. The shell lets us control which programs to run on which inputs and what to do with the output.

Maybe use a shell program like sleep or grep as an example, or another simple executable.

Then do part 6 of the shell lesson.

For a more advanced audience, just do part 6, so that you can use the script later in the workshop.

Key Points

• We can use the shell to navigate through folders and manipulate files.

• The shell is more than a way to look at files or folders. It’s also a way to run programs.

• A shell script is a text file with a list of shell commands that can be executed together.