IT 117: Intermediate Scripting - Class 17 Exercise

IT 117: Intermediate to Scripting
Class 17 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 ex17.py
Copy the file data.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
```
September 6, 2016
```

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  ex17
```
Check that the directory was created
```
ls
```

Copy the file to Unix

Open FileZilla and connect to users3.cs.umb.edu
You will have to connect using your Unix username and password.
Copy the file to the to it117/ex/ex17

Testing the script on Unix

Connect to users3.cs.umb.edu
Use an ssh client.
Go to the directory for this exercise
```
cd  it117/ex/ex17
```
Make this script executable
```
chmod  755 ex17.py
```
Copy the file data.txt from /home/ghoffman/course_files/it117_files
```
cp  /home/ghoffman/course_files/it117_files/data.txt  .
```
Run this script
```
./ex17.py
```
You should see
```
September 6, 2016
```

Running my test script on your script

If you want to run my text script on your Class Exercise script do the following
Run ex17.sh on your script
```
~ghoffman/it117_test/ex17.sh
```
The script will prompt you for your Unix username.