Virtual Programming Lab (plugin)

VPL is intended for programming activities. You can use VPL for programming in Bash language (shell script) as any other supported programming language. Notice that you must use the file extensión "sh" to run the code.
E.g.
Write a test.sh file

#!/bin/bash
echo "¡Hola Lisbeth!"

If you want that your students get interactive access to an ANSI terminal using a shared machine (not a virtual machine for each one) with zero configuration, you may use VPL. But notice that, each execution is a new start from scratch, no data is kept in the user environment from a previous execution. To get this use the following code

#!/bin/bash
bash

I think that the best approach may be a mix by launching a new "bash" at the end of the code. This will allow to develop and executing a shell script and then show the results and explore new commands.
E.g.
Write a test.sh file

#!/bin/bash
echo "¡Hola Lisbeth!"
bash

Notice that your students can not use commands with root sticky bit.

Best regards,
Juan Carlos