Screencast 2 – File Reading

Tom Purl — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:03:16 +0000

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:

Please feel free to comment on this post or send me an e-mail message if you have any questions or comments.

Screencast 1 – Where Am I?

Tom Purl — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:43:45 +0000

Hooray for the first screencast! Here’s the media:

Please feel free to comment on this post or send me an e-mail message if you have any questions or comments.

$hell Magic

Screencast 2 – File Reading

Screencast 1 – Where Am I?