<!-- Automatically generated by emacsconf-publish-before-page --> [[!toc ]] Format: 38-min talk ; Q&A: IRC Status: TO_FOLLOW_UP <div class="vid mainVideo"><video controls preload="none" id="mainVideo-shell"><source src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2024/emacsconf-2024-shell--emacs-as-a-shell--christopher-howard--main.webm" />captions="""<track label="English" kind="captions" srclang="en" src="/2024/captions/emacsconf-2024-shell--emacs-as-a-shell--christopher-howard--main.vtt" default />"""<track kind="chapters" label="Chapters" src="/2024/captions/emacsconf-2024-shell--emacs-as-a-shell--christopher-howard--main--chapters.vtt" /><p><em>Your browser does not support the video tag. Please download the video instead.</em></p></video>[[!template id="chapters" vidid="mainVideo-shell" data=""" 00:02.940 Introduction 00:37.881 What do I mean by shell? 01:38.560 What I do not mean 04:50.160 What is a shell? 09:26.912 Launching external processes 11:57.300 Environment variables 14:54.400 Processes 17:00.180 Redirecting and pipelining input and output 20:09.440 Scripts 21:11.780 File system management 23:43.560 Networking 24:30.120 A brief tour of Eshell 34:21.128 Login shell 36:36.980 Resources """]]<div></div>Duration: 37:13 minutes<div class="files resources"><ul><li><a href="https://pad.emacsconf.org/2024-shell">Open Etherpad</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2024/emacsconf-2024-shell--emacs-as-a-shell--christopher-howard--intro.webm">Download --intro.webm</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2024/emacsconf-2024-shell--emacs-as-a-shell--christopher-howard--main--chapters.vtt">Download --main--chapters.vtt</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2024/emacsconf-2024-shell--emacs-as-a-shell--christopher-howard--main.vtt">Download --main.vtt</a></li><li><a href="https://media.emacsconf.org/2024/emacsconf-2024-shell--emacs-as-a-shell--christopher-howard--main.webm">Download --main.webm (87MB)</a></li><li><a href="https://toobnix.org/w/hJ11FBLcpEF4cMxMpJi3FE">View on Toobnix</a></li></ul></div></div> # Description <!-- End of emacsconf-publish-before-page -->