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 data file animals.txt
Using FileZilla, copy animals.txt from /home/ghoffman/course_files/it117_files
on pe15.cs.umb.edu
to your machine, as shown
here
Run this script in IDLE
Open the script file in IDLE. Under the Run menu, select Run Module.
Open FileZilla and connect to
pe15.cs.umb.edu
You will have to connect using your Unix username and password.
Go to your 117 directory
Go to your ex directory
Inside this directory create the directory ex8
Right-click in the whitespace inside the
ex directory.
Click and drag down to Create directory.
Add ex8 to the path in the dialog box.
Click OK.
Copy your ex8.py
Click and drag the script from your machine to the
ex8 directory.
Make your script executable
Right-click on the file and select "Permissions" from the menu.
Enter 755 in the box provided.
Click OK.
This will make the script executable.
Copy animals.txt to pe15
Click and drag the file from your machine to the
ex8 directory
Running my test script on your script
If you want to run my text script on your Class Exercise script do the following
Connect to pe15.cs.umb.edu
Use an ssh client.
Go to your ex8 directory
Run my test code on your script
~ghoffman/it117_test/ex08.sh
The script will prompt you for your Unix username.