Bash!



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# bash, but from your browser
ls



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echo "hello world"

Beyond your dad's terminal

In addition to running commands like in a normal terminal you can mix text in between your commands.

This is very useful if you are writing instructions or a README for others to follow. Instead of having to copy and paste commands from a text file they can just run the next cell in the notebook.

Copying a file

(This is a pretend README for copying Leonardo's notebook )

Let's first check the contents of the imgs sub directory:



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ls imgs

We can copy it with the usual copy command and give it a shorter name:



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cp imgs/leonardo.jpg imgs/leo.jpg



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ls imgs

Inline displaying

To check the image was successfully copied, let's display it in the notebook:



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# Display images in your notebook, from bash
cat imgs/leo.jpg | display

Double check we did not modify the image while copying it:



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compare imgs/leonardo.jpg imgs/leo.jpg -highlight-color red imgs/diff.jpg 
cat imgs/diff.jpg | display



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rm imgs/leo.jpg imgs/diff.jpg



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# The bash kernel is still quite new and a side project
# so it doesn't have all the features everyone would want.



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ping -c 4 8.8.8.8