% CST8207 Week 05 Notes - Redirection, VIM, Midterm #1
% Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - www.idallen.com
% Winter 2013 - January to April 2013 - Updated Wed May 8 21:01:24 EDT 2013

Readings, Assignments, Labs, and ToDo
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-   Read (at least) these things (All The Words):
    -   [Week 05 Notes HTML] - this file - ** Read All The Words **
    -   [Unix Shell I/O Redirection (including Pipes)]
    -   [The VI (VIM) Text Editor]
    -   [List of Commands]

-   From “Unix for Mac OS X Users” at [lynda.com]
    -   **6. Directing Input and Output 20m 39s**
        -   Standard input and standard output 1m 24s
        -   Directing output to a file 4m 13s
        -   Appending to a file 2m 44s
        -   Directing input from a file 5m 28s
        -   Piping output to input 4m 40s
        -   Suppressing output 2m 10s

-   Read (All The Words), Do, and save (not for hand in)
    -   [Lab Worksheet #02 HTML]
    -   [Lab Worksheet #03 HTML]

-   Read (All The Words), Do, and then Submit via Blackboard:
    -   [Assignment #02 HTML] - [Course Linux Server]
    -   [Assignment #03 HTML] - practice with basic commands
    -   [Assignment #04 HTML] - review errors on [Midterm Test #1 PDF]

-   **READ ALL THE WORDS**

Midterm Test #1 - Week 5 - Thursday February 7 - 15%
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-   Midterm test dates are posted on the [Course Home Page].
-   Midterm Test #1 (Thu Feb 7) covers these notes and readings:
    -   [Week 02 Notes HTML]
        -   [Lab Worksheet #02 HTML]
        -   [Assignment #02]

    -   [Week 03 Notes HTML]
        -   [Lab Worksheet #03 HTML]
        -   [Assignment #03]

-   See the [Practice Test #1 PDF] and answer file in the [Class Notes].
    The same questions are posted under **Practice** on Blackboard.
-   For full marks, you must read the [Test Instructions] before the test
    for important directions on how to enter your answers, your lab section
    number, and the test version number on the question sheet and the
    mark-sense forms.
-   There may be more questions on the test than you can answer in the time
    allowed; answer the ones you know, first.

Midterm Test #1 Analysis
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-   Number of students (out of 85) who did not follow the Test Instructions
    printed on the top of the test: `34`

-   Number of students who did not enter their correct LAB section: `22`

-   Number of students who did not enter a correct Test Version: `18`

-   Number of students who got question #46 wrong even though the answer was
    given in the Test Instructions printed at the top of the test: `10`

-   Number of students who entered their own name incorrectly on the
    mark-sense form (usually by shortening it): `4`

-   Class scores for 85 students:

    > 97.8 95.7 95.7 95.7 93.5 93.5 91.3 91.3 89.1 89.1 89.1 87 87 87 87 84.3
    > 82.6 82.6 82.2 82.2 80.4 80.4 80.4 80.4 80.4 78.3 78.3 78.3 78.3 76.1
    > 76.1 75.9 73.9 73.9 73.9 71.7 71.7 69.6 67.4 67.4 67.4 67.4 65.4 65.2
    > 65.2 65.2 63.3 63 63 63 61.3 61.3 61.2 60.9 59 58.7 57.2 56.9 56.9 55.4
    > 54.8 54.3 53.1 52.7 52.7 51.1 50.6 49 48.5 47 44.3 43.5 43.5 43.5 42.9
    > 38 36.8 35.8 34.8 32.6 31.6 31.6 30.7 23.2 21.1

-   You can see the errors in [Midterm Test #1 PDF].

From the Class Notes link on the Course Home Page
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-   Review last week. Did you do everything assigned last week?

From the Classroom Whiteboard/Chalkboard
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-   Your in-class notes go here.
-   First Midterm test date: Thursday February 7 3pm (Week 5)
-   Please send me a copy of the [Rap Video] …

Some Commands
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Keep a notebook with a [List of Commands] in it:

-   `head`, `tail`

Unix Shell I/O Redirection (including Pipes)
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-   [Unix Shell I/O Redirection (including Pipes)]

Real Sysadmin Work
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-   Checking student account directories and mail spool files:

        # ls /home | wc
        # ls -d /home/* | wc
        # ls -d /home/???????? | wc
        # LC_COLLATE=C ; export LC_COLLATE    # strict ASCII sorting in ranges
        # ls -d /home/[a-z][a-z][a-z0-9][a-z0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] | wc
        # ls -d /var/mail/[a-z][a-z][a-z0-9][a-z0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] | wc

-   Checking student assignments:

        # ls -d /home/[a-z][a-z][a-z0-9][a-z0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/CST8207-13W

![Study]

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[Plain Text] - plain text version of this page in [Pandoc Markdown]
format 

  [Unix Shell I/O Redirection (including Pipes)]: 200_redirection.html
  [The VI (VIM) Text Editor]: 300_vi_text_editor.html
  [List of Commands]: 900_unix_command_list.html
  [lynda.com]: https://lyceum.algonquincollege.com/Lynda
  [Lab Worksheet #02 HTML]: worksheet02.html
  [Lab Worksheet #03 HTML]: worksheet03.html
  [Course Linux Server]: 010_course_linux_server.html
  [Midterm Test #1 PDF]: midterm1.pdf
  [Practice Test #1 PDF]: practicetest1.pdf
  [Class Notes]: indexcgi.cgi
  [Test Instructions]: 000_test_instructions.html
  [Rap Video]: 000_rap.html
  [Study]: data/study_verb.jpg "Study"
  [Plain Text]: week05notes.txt
  [Pandoc Markdown]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/