Gerard Capes

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Yes, this used to be mentioned in the lesson but isn't any more. I forget why. However I was looking for this info today in the instructor guide, and it's...

Many good points raised above. In addition to organising the files better, there are a number of unused files which I would be in favour of deleting: - notes.txt -...

Thanks for raising this issue. It's a bit tricky because currently the lesson kinda glosses over this information, albeit with a brief note: > Some of its output is about...

I'm not sure what's misleading. The syntax is very similar, but it copies a file instead of moving a file.

As always I think there's a trade off between accuracy and clarity, and for novices clarity usually trumps accuracy. So here, I think saying the two commands work "very much...

Thanks for the PR! I have zero experience with Chrome OS. Can you follow the whole course using crosh/shell?

Thanks for the suggestion. This is a nice shortcut, but does it work on git bash and terminal in macos? We don't want to be adding anything which only works...

Thanks for the issue. I think this explanation can be clarified further by amending the introductory wording to make it more explicit that this is pseudocode, rather than a working...

See also #1117. On the one hand, what little I know of Chrome OS is that it's based on Gentoo Linux, so I'd speculate that the Unix Shell lesson would...

I have now edited my comment to improve clarity -- hope that helps.