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            <h1>Create An Easy to Use, Locally Hosted Bash Script Repository</h1>
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          <p><em>In this example I&#39;ll be installing Apache2 on a Debian VM, but the server can be hosted on any OS or web server capable of serving .sh files.</em></p>

<h2>Installing a Web Server</h2>

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	<li>Log into the Linux device</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in a terminal window:
	<div class="codeBlock"># update software repositories<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	# install available software updates<br />
	sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
	# install apache2 webserver and curl<br />
	sudo apt install apache2 curl -y<br />
	# create a subfolder in the webroot to store .sh files<br />
	sudo mkdir /var/www/html/bash -p</div>
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<h2>Creating a Sample Bash Script</h2>

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	<li>Continue with the following command to create a sample bash script
	<div class="codeBlock">sudo nano /var/www/html/bash/whoami.sh</div>
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	<li>Paste the following script into whoami.sh
	<p>#!/bin/bash<br />
	echo &quot;hello, today is $(date &#39;+%A&#39;). You are running me as $(whoami).&quot;</p>
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	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to whoami.sh</li>
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<h2>Executing the Sample Bash Script</h2>

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	<li>Continue with the following command to execute the sample script
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