Gerard Capes

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This is a good point. Both `man` and `--help` are available for Linux, so that would round out your proposed changes.

Yes I think a PR would be useful to remind learners in this exercise that if they're using Git Bash, they won't have `man` available.

Good, low-effort solution!

Sorry, that's my bad memory. It was 3 hours once, but I amended it a while back #680. I think a report from instructors on the current material would be...

Here's a placeholder if anyone wants to copy it and put their times up: |Episode|Teaching (mins)|Exercises (mins)| |---|---|---| |1||| |2||| |3||| |4||| |5||| |6||| |7|||

It turns out this has been a long-standing issue: #449

I forgot to keep a break-down of the timings last time I taught this, but I ran 090:00-16:00 with 1h30 for lunch and breaks. That's 5.5 hrs teaching, and I...

All valid points, but I think there are enough exercises in the loops section already, and this exercise is to practice wildcards rather than loops. It would however be good...

Thanks for raising this issue. For the purposes of a novice learning to use a tool (or indeed as an experienced user using a tool), I think any details about...