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+#!/bin/bash
+# read the name of the user and print hello
+
+echo "Hello! What is your name"
+read name
+echo "Your full name is $name"
+
+# single quotes prevent the expansion of the variable
+echo 'Your name was stored in $name'
+
+# exercise: write a script that asks the user for a 
+# filename and create an empty file named after it