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[luc9]

Write a script that outputs your name. So if your name is "Joe Smith". The script should echo "Joe Smith" to the screen.
the answer is $cat tut2q1.sh
!/bin/bash

This is a script to print Joe Smiths name.

echo 'Joe Smith' $
but after i write $cat blah blah, the next command line gives me > symbol. after finish typing until the end of $, i can't get out of the sh? how do you type those command step by step?
thanks

[+Haggis]

You have noend explained this very well


Remive the end $

And u need a # at the start of the bin bash line

[PeteDaCoder]

For your script to print the name, your bash script should be simply:
#!/bin/bash
echo 'Joe Smith'

However alternatively you can use the command whoami which will return the user's name: i.e.
#!/bin/bash
whoami

[Lant]

Also you should really execute bash scripts by "bash tut2q1.sh", what you are doing is just writing the files contents to the console with cat