05. Your first command (echo)

Ud206 004 Shell P2 - Your First Command

## Using the Workspace

The Workspace will allow you to practice the command directly in the classroom but remember that it is important you practice locally in your computer.

The workspace is an environment that contains the software you need to run some commands in each you can find instructions to use the terminal.

Workspace

This section contains either a workspace (it can be a Jupyter Notebook workspace or an online code editor work space, etc.) and it cannot be automatically downloaded to be generated here. Please access the classroom with your account and manually download the workspace to your local machine. Note that for some courses, Udacity upload the workspace files onto https://github.com/udacity, so you may be able to download them there.

Workspace Information:

  • Default file path:
  • Workspace type: repl
  • Opened files (when workspace is loaded): n/a

echo

What do you think is going on when you run this command:
echo $COLUMNS x $LINES
(Try it!)
You can use the the Workspace above to run the commands
SOLUTION: The shell is telling me how big my terminal is.

Recomendation

The Shell commands can be installed or not on your computer if you are using Linux or Mac and you have issues running the commands check the documentation specifically for the Operating System.

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