What Virtual Machines are good for (evaluating Linux distros) and which ones to use. An example of how and why to use a Bash function. Overview of manual pages and the tldr command.

What is an alias? How to create them.

What is a function? How to create them.

Some miscellany along the way... :-)

We will go through a detailed example of how to string commands together on the command line using pipes.

This continues from Episode 37 on the terminal shell

Today I cover the idea of bash shortcuts, including scripts, aliases and functions. I also go over a couple of short answers to listener questiosn and praise for ffmpeg.

In this episode we cover more on how to ues the tab key for command and variable name completion; we also cover some accounting information.