Assignment 03: The Shell

Due by Friday, September 12, 2025

Complete parts One to Four of the Carpentries’ Shell Tutorial

  • Click here to access the tutorial. It has seven parts, which you’re welcome to do all of, but for now you should do at least the first four: Introducing the Shell, Navigating Files and Directories, Working with Files and Directories, and Pipes and Filters.

  • Don’t skip the Summary and Setup section! Amongst other things it has a zip file of sample material you will need to download in order to complete the tutorial.

  • If you are on Windows, two things:

    1. Remember to explicitly uncompress or expand the zip file you download before trying to use anything in it.
    2. For the Carpentries’ shell tutorial, use the Git Bash shell. If you don’t have it already, install Git for Windows, via winget. Open a PowerShell window and type:
    winget install --id Git.Git -e --source winget

    Then, you can launch Git Bash by opening the Windows Start menu and searching for “Git Bash”.

  • Complete the exercises in the Tutorial (don’t just read through them!) and make notes of any questions you want to raise in class about it.

  • If you have trouble, ask for help in the #mptc-general channel of the Slack.