CSCI 57 and 65: Introduction to Unix Courses

Laboratory Assignment 5

ASSIGNMENT DUE: see calendar on the web

• On all homework please include
• Your Name
• Course Number
  
• Date
• ecst login name
  

• This homework can be typed and printed from unix or you can just print out this webpage and write the answers on it.
  
• You NOT need to include the printing cover page (details given in lab).
• To do this lab you need to learn vim using the vimtutor
• You can start using the vimtutor by just typing: vimtutor
• If you recieve a command not found error you can type the full path with: /opt/sfw/bin/vimtutor
  

• Please answer the following questions (answers and/or help given in lab).  

• Review Questions
  
1. What command is used to print a file in our lab classroom?______________________________________
2. What command is used to view the printer queue in our lab classroom?____________________________
3. What command is used to delete print jobs?__________________________________________________
4. What option do you use in printing jobs to suppress the banner page?______________________________
• Vim Questions. Go through the vimtutor and then come back and answer these questions ("arrow keys" are not answers to any of these questions)
1. What key allows you to move up in vim?__________
2. What key allows you to move down in vim?__________
3. What key allows you to move left in vim?__________
4. What key allows you to move right in vim?__________
5. What is the undo command?_______________________
6. What is the put command?_________________________
7. What is the replace command?_______________________
8. How do you exit from editing a file without saving your changes?__________________
9. How do you exit from editing a file and saving your changes?_____________________
10. How do you write your file to a new filename?______________________________________________
    
11. How can you delete an unwanted character in vim?_____________________________
12. How can you insert text in vim?____________________________________________
13. What one command can you use to change every occurence of the word "old" to the word "new" in a file?___________________________________________________
14. How can you delete a word (with one command)?_________________________
15. How can you delete to the end of a line (with one comand)?_____________________________
16. How can you delete an entire line (with one command)?____________________________
17. What command will show your location (as in line and column number) in a file?_______________________________
18. What is the search command in vim?  What other unix utility we have covered uses the same search command?___________________________
19. How do you search backwards for a term in vim?_______________________
    
20. How can you execute an external command in vim?__________________________________
21. How can you insert the contents of anothe file in the current file you are editing?______________________________________________
22. What one letter command can you use to begin appending text to the end of a line?_________________________________________________
• Download a version of Vim for your platform (Windows, Mac) and install on your home computer or on some other computer (not the Unix systems on campus though).  If you have installed Linux then you probably already have Vim installed and can just say you have Linux installed and you don't have to bother with these questions any more than this.
• First Method
• You can download it from http://www.vim.org/download.php
• If you are using Windows you can just download this file and run it to begin installation ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim62.exe
• Second Method (better but also slower if you use a dial-up connection to the internet)
• Download Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/
• Cygwin gives you a Unix prompt and a lot of Unix utilities on Windows.  You should be able to choose and install vim using cygwin (I think).
1. What method did you try? ________________________________________
2. Were you successful (If not successful please give explanation)? ___________________________________________