Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Due: Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Unix and Linux systems are very commonly used as servers on a network (web servers, database servers, file servers, etc.). Quite frequently, there is no graphical user interface (GUI) available on these servers; the user has only a standard terminal or console interface. Administrators for these systems invariably need to use vi to edit configuration files. In fact, some critical files have their own vi implementation (such as vipw to edit /etc/passwd and visudo to edit /etc/sudoers). On these systems it is critical that the user be fluent with the use of vi.
Read the forth chapter of the textbook "Your Unix: The Ultimate Guide" on the vi editor and answer the following Exercise questions found at the end of the chapter:
4.1 through 4.24