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# '''Save''' editing changes and '''exit''' the text editor.<br><br>
# Confirm that you created this file and confirm that the contents of this file are correct.<br><br>Let's run a <b>shell script</b> to check that you created the '''myvm.txt''' file (with correct fil e contents) in your home directory.<br><br>
#Enter the following command: <span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">bash /home/murray.saul/scripts/week7-check-1</span><br><br># If you encounter errors, make corrections and then re-run the checking script until you receive<br>a congratulations message, and proceed to the next step.<br><br>Although you will be learning to create and run Bash shell scripts (near the end of this course)<br>to '''automate''' tasks Matrix course , those scripts will only run in a '''command-line''' environment.<br><br>But since you are running the <u>graphical</u> '''Knoppix''' Linux distribution on your computer,<br>you can run scripts graphically (including the use of '''dialog boxes''' for ''input'', ''output'', etc.).<br><br>
# Issue the following command to download a shell script called '''week7-demo-1''' from the Internet:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">wget <nowiki>https://matrix.senecacollege.ca/~murray.saul/week7-demo-1</nowiki></span><br><br>
# Issue the '''ls''' command to confirm that the file week7-demo-1<br>has been downloaded to your current directory.<br><br>
