Utilizing the sanity check command, ls -lh, while downloading or mak…

[rachellombardi]

…ing edits to files

The command ls -lh is a great way for learners to feel more confident that they are not working with corrupt files during their analysis.

[aschuerch]

Thank you @ralomba, and sorry it took so long to give you feedback on this. I agree that ls -lh is very useful. However, in the content of this lesson, I feel it is a bit out of place, as it is not used anymore after this point. I would prefer having this as extra content rather than in the 'writing scripts' episode. I am leaving this PR open for the moment: what do others think?

[rachellombardi]

Hi @aschuerch! I think you have a great point - while this is a helpful command, it would be better suited for the extra content. I wonder if it would be a good idea to have a list of "sanity checks" at the end of the lesson as supplementary material? Perhaps as a one page document for learners to refer to after the workshop is over?

[akshayparopkari]

Thanks @rachellombardi for initiating this PR.

Quite late on my response, but I agree with @aschuerch's suggestion about including ls -lh as an extra - specifically, as a special blockquote. Check Special Blockquotes section in lesson formatting. @aschuerch, is this along what you had in mind?

@rachellombardi, as for the one page of sanity checks, I think some of these are addressed in Key Points section at the bottom of all lessons, albeit in varying degree.

[esallychang]

I agree that this is perfect "discretionary" material for the instructor to use as time/interest allows. @rachellombardi if you do not see this key point already satisfactorily addressed in the "Key Points" somewhere, it would be great if you could start a PR to add this to the Shell Genomics Extras lessons instead: https://datacarpentry.org/shell-genomics/Extra_lesson/ .

We use the "Extras" page as a place to store really useful commands that do not quite fit in the current flow of the lesson (but could be added later/be brought up by particular instructors). Going to leave this PR open until the other PR has been started, or you find it has already been addressed. Thank you!

[tobyhodges]

I'm processing outstanding pull requests on this repository, in preparation for transition to the new lesson infrastructure. I am going to close this PR now due to inactivity.