IT 117: Intermediate Scripting - Class 8 Exercise

IT 117: Intermediate Scripting
Class 8 Exercise

Script for this exercise

Open a text editor
You can use the editor built into IDLE or use a program like Sublime.
Copy the text below into the file

Save the file as ex8.py
Copy the file animals.txt from /home/ghoffman/course_files/it117_files
Use FileZilla to do this.
Run this script in IDLE
Open the script file in IDLE. Under the Run menu, select Run Module.

You should see

{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}
{1, 3, 5, 9, 7}
{8, 2, 10, 4, 6}
{'gorilla', 'flamingo', 'dog', 'cat', 'bear', 'emu', 'aardvark'}

Unix setup

Log in to users3.cs.umb.edu
You will be in your home directory.
Go to your it117 directory
```
cd it117
```
Go to your ex directory
```
cd ex
```
Create a directory for this exercise
```
mkdir  ex8
```
Check that the directory was created
```
ls
```

Copy the file to Unix

Open FileZilla and co8ect to users3.cs.umb.edu
You will have to co8ect using your Unix username and password.
Copy the file to the to it117/ex/ex8

Testing the script on Unix

Co8ect to users3.cs.umb.edu
Use an ssh client.
Go to the directory for this exercise
```
cd  it117/ex/ex8
```
Make this script executable
```
chmod  755 ex8.py
```
Copy the file animals.txt from /home/ghoffman/course_files/it117_files
```
cp  /home/ghoffman/course_files/it117_files/animals.txt  .
```
Run this script
```
./ex8.py
```

You should see

{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}
{1, 3, 5, 9, 7}
{8, 2, 10, 4, 6}
{'gorilla', 'flamingo', 'dog', 'cat', 'bear', 'emu', 'aardvark'}

Run
ing my test script on your script

If you want to run my text script on your Class Exercise script do the following
Run ex08.sh on your script
```
~ghoffman/it117_test/ex08.sh
```
The script will prompt you for your Unix username.