Eight Episodes on the Unix Shell
I had planned to leave it out, but your votes count: the first eight screencasts of our lecture on the Unix shell are now online. Topics covered are:
- Introduction (4:09)
- Files and Directories (9:55)
- Creating and Deleting (6:23)
- Pipes and Filters (9:11)
- Permissions (10:54)
- Finding Things (9:22)
- Job Control (5:37)
- Variables (6:49)
I’ve already got a list of changes to make (thanks to feedback from IsaacG2—my apologies, but I didn’t see your comments until after I’d recorded), but I hope this will be a good start. And for those who are interested, the eight episodes together took 36.5 hours to write, revise, record, and edit, for 62:20 of screen time. That’s better than the 50:1 ratio I was clocking in June, but I need to squeeze it further if I’m going to finish everything on time.
These lectures are great (at least the first 4, which is all I’ve looked at so far). Thanks for putting the shell back in.
One correction (I think) on Pipes & Filters: presumably you want to get rid of ‘lengths’ in the final command (starting around slide 40).
I would also suggest splitting this episode into two parts by splitting off the “what’s going on behind the scenes” section into an optional episode for folks who are interested or doing a long and a short version (pulling that section from the short version) like you’ve done once before (in relation to hash tables).