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#! bin/bash
echo "Enter desired file"
read "$file"
if [ ! -f $file ] ; then
touch $file #this will create the file
fi
vi $file

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Try this


#! bin/bash
echo "Enter desired file"
read "$file"
if [ ! -f $file ] ; then
touch $file #this will create the file
fi

And do you mean by retrieve the file?...

That's also not valid syntax, I'm not sure what it's supposed to do either.

I'll tackle it in parts instead.

for NAME in /etc/*
do
echo $NAME
done This would print every folder or...

Nothing -- it's syntactically invalid. Here's how you fix it:
#!/bin/bash
# false is a program that always returns a nonzero value.
# if considers nonzero as fail, so this
# You can't just put...