Used Commands

Bash 5.2.15 (released on 2022-12-13)

Remarks:

• version 3.2 should be sufficient for this workshop
• version 4.4 or newer is highly preferred
• version 5.2 is recommended

bash --version
bash -version

which bash
which -a bash
which -a bash | uniq

/bin/bash --version
/usr/local/bin/bash --version

echo $BASH_VERSION

env -i bash --norc --noprofile
echo $BASH_VERSION
man bash
man -t bash | ps2pdf -dPDFA - man_bash_3_2.pdf  # PDF of man is 64 pages long
exit

man bash
man -t bash | ps2pdf -dPDFA - man_bash_5_2.pdf  # PDF of man is 87 pages long

Nano 7.1 (released on 2022-12-14)

Remarks:

• older versions of Nano are just fine
• you can use any text editor you are familiar with, such as Emacs or Vim
• we need a text editor, not a word processor

nano --version

FFmpeg 5.1.2 (released on 2022-09-25)

Remark:

• we always suggest to use the current release, but older ones should be fine for this workshop

ffmpeg -version
ffprobe -version
ffplay -version

MediaInfo 22.12 (released on 2022-12-22)

Remark:

• we will use the command-line interface (CLI), not the graphical user interface (GUI)

mediainfo --version

2023-01-28