{"id":389,"date":"2026-05-01T01:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/?p=389"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:08:55","slug":"lab-3-working-with-vi-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/2026\/05\/01\/lab-3-working-with-vi-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab 3 &#8211; Working with Vi Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This lab introduced me to using the vi editor to modify and manage a text file. It included copying a system file, opening it in vi, and performing editing tasks such as inserting text, navigating through the file, searching for words, deleting content, copying and pasting lines, and replacing text. I faced challenges switching between command and insert modes and remembering vi shortcuts. Overall, it strengthened my ability to use vi and showed how efficient command-line text editing can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lab introduced me to using the vi editor to modify and manage a text file. It included copying a system file, opening it in vi, and performing editing tasks such as inserting text, navigating through the file, searching for words, deleting content, copying and pasting lines, and replacing text. I faced challenges switching between&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/2026\/05\/01\/lab-3-working-with-vi-editor\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}