Ivan Gonzalez

I don't think there is a SWC-wide standard, might be something to propose at the next maintainers meeting. What about combining the info in the lesson with the instructor's guide...

I think that would be a great addition. Would you like to send a PR, @djinnome ?

> I think “how to open a terminal” is generic enough SWC information that I'd consider putting it in its > own repository and linking from this repo to https://swcarpentry.github.io/open-a-terminal/...

> In the absence of https://swcarpentry.github.io/open-a-terminal/ or some such, your wording makes sense. I really liked @wking's idea of having a lesson on just how to open a terminal. So...

> I really liked @wking's idea of having a lesson on just how to open a terminal. So what about something like this: https://github.com/iglpdc/open-a-terminal Yes, I did: see this comment...

I'd like to have this as a tool at the lesson-template level, so it's available for other lessons too. Having some data files to download is more the norm than...

@richford, thanks for your suggestions. Some thoughts: - I think the machinery for this should be at the level of lesson-template, as most lessons have data files. Lesson-template is merged...

> Just to check, should this go in lesson-template or in lesson-example? Lesson-template. This is the one with the tools we use across all lessons and gets merged periodically with...

What about `awk`? I've seen people using it in scientific contexts, but maybe it's too complicated for novices.