A shell script is a text file containing commands you could type at the prompt, saved so they can run again reliably. The RHCSA asks you to write simple scripts, and a script only counts if it runs the way the task describes: usually by name, from anywhere, with the right interpreter. Three things make that happen: the shebang line, the execute permission and the PATH.
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