Customised material for Software Carpentry instructors (with a Mac!) for syncing a Finder window with the current working directory in bash. It also has other changes to clear and PS1 useful for teaching the shell-novice lesson.
See this video for a short demonstration.
- Mac OS X (tested on 10.11, others likely will be ok)
The only file that currently differs from the canonical lessons is .bash_profile, which contains the functions that can imported into the shell by:
source .bash_profile
Finder New or changed filenames are built-in. The only trick is to use Applescript to change the directory. It is trigged by an alias of cd and run after a successful call:
function set_finder_target () {
current_dir=`pwd`
finderPath=`osascript -e "
tell application \"Finder\" to set target of window 1 to (\"$current_dir\" as POSIX file)"`
}
function cd_swc () {
cd "$@" && set_finder_target
}
alias cd='cd_swc'However for ease of use in preparing for a lesson, the file structure can be downloaded from the archive directly on GitHub and then renamed from data-shell-shell_gui_link to data-shell. It can then be used by the instructor in place of the files the learners have.
This clone also works if emulating "Nelle" on a Mac filesystem. On a clean user installation of the username nelle open a terminal and a Finder window. In terminal:
cd ~/Desktop
git clone https://github.com/lonsbio/data-shell.git
source data-shell/.bash_profile
cd data-shell
To get only the data-shell changes, the following can be performed when using the local clone:
# get only the data-shell directory from upstream
git remote add upstream https://github.com/swcarpentry/shell-novice
git fetch upstream gh-pages
git checkout upstream/gh-pages
git subtree split --prefix=data-shell -b temp_compare_upstream
# compare to current and merge
git checkout shell_gui_link
git merge temp_compare_upstream
git branch -D temp_compare_upstream