Gerard Capes

I'll repeat here my correction (https://github.com/swcarpentry/shell-novice/issues/590#issuecomment-396607347) to the comment below : >ls -F is a good example because, according to one of the tickets I referenced, it does something completely...

How about having a disclaimer near the beginning of the course to say that the examples throughout the course show the output from Bash on Linux. We can explain that...

Thanks @loz-hurst Having re-read your original post I see you want option 3. which is for all the examples to work equally well on all platforms. That would be the...

Perhaps we can list (and link to the episode) for all the examples which give different output on Git Bash/Mac. Then we can see whether option 3 is achievable.

Ok, I'm making a start on the list of examples where the output depends on your OS: - ~~https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/01-intro/index.html#what-does-it-look-like~~ > ~~Also, capitalization matters: `LS` is different from `ls`.~~ This one...

Re: version control of large files I've not used it, but have heard good things about this: https://git-lfs.github.com/

`tree` certainly makes it easy to create the representations and is already used in various places in the lesson, but maybe isn't suitable to replace all the graphical representations which...

Thanks for the issues. 1. this would be good to fix. 2. I think sometimes clarity of wording beats absolute correctness. The existing sentence is easy to read whereas the...

Some rearrangement is probably in order (e.g. 'removing unneeded files' could go from ep4 to ep3), but the square bracket notation `*[AB]` is relied on in episode 5 and 6...

Thanks for the issues. 1. Sounds good 2. I think the exercise wording already covers this > The `uniq` command filters out adjacent matching lines in a file 3. These...