Screencast 2 – File Reading
Whew, I finally figured out what my problems were with my video publishing toolchain on Ubuntu. I meant to have this video published 3 weeks ago. Maybe I’ll post a few articles about screencasting on Linux too 
In the second screencast, we take our first big bite of “Unix spinach” by learning about file output. We cover the following commands:
- cat
- more
- less
- head
- tail
Why spinach? Because regularly using these commands has a lot of long-term benefits, even if they are a little hard to “swallow” in the beginning.
Wow that was a poor analogy. Maybe I should be watching screencasts about using better analogies.
Here’s the media:
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