Nt1310 Unit 4 Lab Report

The purpose of Lab 4 was to experiment with the vi editor commands. In the lab, the “garden” file was edited in many different ways. Many commands were explored in this lab including the ab, U, yy, dd, w, set number, set showmode, and paging commands.

Step 1: Boot up the computer by pressing the power button.

Step 2: Select Oracle Virtualbox using the mouse.

Step 3:Open Fedora by using the Virtualbox Machine and click start when Fedora is selected.

Step 4: With the vi editor in command mode type in, “:ab Nathaniel NH” to set the abbreviation for Nathaniel. Next press the “shift” key and the “o” key to move the text down one line. This also will put the vi editor in insert mode. Then, “Nathaniel” should be typed in After “Nathaniel” is typed in, press the spacebar to replace it with the abbreviation “NH.”
Then add a space. Next, type in “dd”.Then, press the “Ctrl” key, “v” key, and “esc” key at the same time to map this key. FInally, press the “Enter” key.

Step 6: Press the “U” key to undo the text changes. Step 7: To list the current file in the current directory, type in “: ! ls”.The “garden” file along with other files will be shown in the current directory.

Step 8: With the vi editor in command mode, press the arrow keys to move the cursor to the end of the abbreviated name.Then,type in, “:r ! date”. The date will be displayed underneath the abbreviated name.

Step 9: Move the cursor to the end to the end of the file using the arrow keys. Then, “:r file1” was typed into the command line. The file “file1” was placed at the end of the garden file.

Step 10: To save the file with another name, type in, “ :w gardenfile1” into the vi editor while in command mode.

Step 11: To set the showmode option, type in, “:set showmode” into the vi editor while in command