IT 117: Intermediate Scripting

IT 117: Intermediate to Scripting
Class 5 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 ex5.py
Copy the file names_emails.txt and the file student_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

Cannot open file xxxx

Chris chris57@gmail.com
Frank frank27@hotmail.com
Alan ahurley175@yahoo.com


Cannot open xxx

07511379 Fatih Jones fjones fatih.jones@gmail.com
04175276 James Reynolds jr jim.reynolds@gmail.com
03687480 Alexander Smith bigboy bigboy@hotmail.com
05431692 Christopher Cannon ccannon chris@nomail.com
09329034 Jane Adams jadams jadams@yahoo.com

Copy the file to Unix

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 ex5
Right-click in the whitespace inside the ex directory.
Click and drag down to Create directory.
Add ex5 to the path in the dialog box.
Click OK.
Copy your ex5.py
Click and drag the script from your machine to the ex5 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 data files to pe15
Click and drag names_emails.txt and student_data.txt from your machine to the ex5 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.
Run my test code on your script
```
~ghoffman/it117_test/ex05.sh
```
The script will prompt you for your Unix username.