Finding Things - Exercise 'Tracking a Species' only has the help function for Mac listed

[Elisa-on-GitHub]

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In the episode 'Finding Things' the 'Tracking a Species' exercise advises a learner to "use man grep to look for how to grep text recursively in a directory and man cut to select more than one field in a line". This is only the help command for Mac. For people working on a Windows machine with Git Bash, the command would be grep --help and cut --help respectively.

My suggestion: change the wording in this exercise to: "... use man grep (Mac) or grep --help (Git on Windows) to look for how to grep text recursively in a directory and man cut (Mac) or cut --help (Git on Windows) to select more than one field in a line"

I don't know what the help function is on Linux, because I don't use Linux personally and the Getting Help section in the first episode does not specify it. I suppose one of the commands for Mac or Windows will work. Is there a Linux user who knows? Thank you in advance 🙏

[gcapes]

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

[Elisa-on-GitHub]

Thank you for your feedback. Do you think this warrants a PR? I would be happy to submit it!

Update: I added issue #1315, which has been followed up.

[gcapes]

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.