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Week 8 Notes for DAT2330 - Ian Allen - idallen@ncf.ca
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Remember - knowing how to find out an answer is more important than
memorizing the answer.  Learn to fish!  RTFM!  (Read The Fine Manual)

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Review
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In Week 7 (see week07notes.txt) you read the first part of Chapter 10
using the Reading/Study guides.  You reviewed the updated vi_basics.txt
file.  You wrote a simple shell script.  You wrote the second midterm
test.  You read several files under the Notes button on the course home
page: vi_basics.txt, shell_script_execution.txt, midterm2_topics.txt,
chapter10guide.txt

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This Week (Week 8)
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Pick up your midterm question sheet from your instructor.  If I can get
a mobile data projector, I will review the midterm test questions in
the Labs this week.  (If not, I will do the review in class.)

Preparation for Exercise #5:

1.  Read the file startup_files.txt (under Notes) and create the
    correct start-up .profile and .bashrc files on ACADUNIX.
    (Make sure you start up the bash shell in your .profile file.)
    Show these two files to your instructor.

2.  Create a bash alias that changes "vi" to "vim" on ACADUNIX.
    Save it in your .bashrc.  Log out; log in.  Show your instructor.

3.  Create a .vimrc file using the example given under "Setting VIM
    Options - Getting Help" in the vi_basics.txt file.  Show your
    instructor.

4.  Create a shell script that echoes one line of text to standard
    output and a second line of text to standard error (p.310).
    Demonstrate this to your instructor.  (The script must start with
    the correct #! line given in the chapter10guide.txt notes.)

5.  Know how to redirect both the standard output and standard error
    output of any command into a file or into a pipe (p.309).
    Use your script from #4 as the command and show your instructor.

6.  Locate the copy of the course notes directory stored under ~alleni
    on ACADUNIX (~alleni/course/dat2330/03w/notes/).  Use a command
    to find all lines that contain the word "TERM" (upper-case) in all
    files with names ending in ".txt" or ".html".  Show your instructor.

Watch for Exercise #5 in the Announcements this week.

Other useful Notes (under the Notes buttons on the course home page):

    vi_basics.txt        shell_script_execution.txt
    startup_files.txt    chapter10guide.txt