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Library Carpentry: The UNIX Shell
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Unix philosophy as an objective is not explained in the lesson #266

Open maneesha opened 2 months ago

maneesha commented 2 months ago

What is the problem?

In the Counting and Mining lesson one of the objectives is:

However, this philosophy is not explained or described in this lesson.

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emcaulay commented 2 months ago

I think that objective is at least partially addressed in a section with a "bell" symbol on it with the heading "Pipes and Filters."

It's possible that a revision to that set of paragraphs could make the point more explicitly.

emcaulay commented 2 months ago

I apologize that I cannot help more at this time, but I hope I gave a little assistance to locating a place to start.

maneesha commented 2 months ago

In that section, the concept is referred to as "pipes and filters" while we say "small pieces, loosely joined" in the objectives. There isn't anything there that would make the novice learner understand that "pipes and filters" is what "small pieces, loosely joined" means.