The Unix Shell: Setup

Download files

You need to download some files to follow this lesson.

  1. Start up Visual Studio Code and Docker
  2. Go to View -> Command Palette
  3. Start to type in “Remote-Containers: Clone Repository in Container Volume”, and select this command as soon as it appears
  4. Enter the repository name: “MPAGS-CPP-2021/test-setup”
  5. Select “Create Unique Volume”
  6. Once the dev container has initialised and you can see the content of the cloned repository in the explorer, open a new terminal by going to Terminal -> New Terminal
  7. This is the terminal where we will be working. To download the data we need, copy and paste the following command: wget https://cpp-pg-mpags.github.io/shell-novice/data/shell-lesson-data.zip
  8. We now need to unzip so again, copy and paste the following: unzip shell-lesson-data.zip

You’re now all ready to go through the material!