From the course: Linux Bash Shells and Scripts: Streamlining Tasks and Enhancing Workflows with Automation

What you should know - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Linux Bash Shells and Scripts: Streamlining Tasks and Enhancing Workflows with Automation

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What you should know

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- [Instructor] So what do you need for this course besides anticipation and excitement about learning Bash? You need access to a Bash shell and preferably on a Linux system because I'm going to be using Linux, so this stuff's going to correspond better. You should have some command line-experience, used to doing commands, maybe on a Mac, maybe on a Windows machine, whatever. But we're not using the mouse, so we're not going to be doing mouse stuff. And we're going to be doing some shell programming, so some experience using some programming language would be valuable. We have a bunch of lab exercise files that will be helpful if you can get those. So download that from the course materials there and you should get a tarball that's the lab exercises, and then you're going to extract that. Let me show you how you could do that. So what you should download is a file called lab_exercises.tar and you extract that just with tar xf and the file name. Hit Enter there and you get nothing, that's probably a good sign. You do an ls, now you got a bunch of stuff. And if we look what's in there, there's a bunch of directories and files. So we have directories for each chapter where we have files, chapters one through four, and then in those we have files. And of course they differ there. So there you go. You're going to have lots of fun stuff to do. That's the overview of the lab exercises. In the next movie, we'll start looking at Bash, including Bash documentation.

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