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# Open a Shell terminal and use a text editor (such as <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">vi</span></code></b> or <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">nano</span></code></b>) to create a Bash Shell script called: <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">report.bash</span></code></b> in your current directory.
# Enter the following text content into your text-editing session:
<span style="font-family:courier;font-size:10pt;"code>
#!/bin/bash # Forces script to run in the bash shell<br>
<br>
exit 1<br>
fi<br>
</spancode>
<ol><li value="4">Save your editing session, assign your report.bash file read and execute permissions (at least for the owner) and run by typing: <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">./report.bash</span></code></b></li><li>Did it run? If not what do you think you need to do in order to run the Bash Shell Script?</li><li>Issue the command <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">su</span></code></b> and run the Bash shell again. Did it work?</li><li>Reopen your text-editing session for report.bash and add the following lines of code to the bottom of the shell script file:</ol>