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+# Reverse String
+
+Reverse a string
+
+For example:
+input: "cool"
+output: "looc"
+
+
+Run the tests with:
+
+```bash
+bats reverse_string_test.sh
+```
+
+After the first test(s) pass, continue by commenting out or removing the
+`[[ $BATS_RUN_SKIPPED == true ]] || skip` 
+annotations prepending other tests.
+
+To run all tests, including the ones with `skip` annotations, run:
+
+```bash
+BATS_RUN_SKIPPED=true bats reverse_string_test.sh
+```
+
+## Source
+
+Introductory challenge to reverse an input string [https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-reverse-a-string-in-javascript-in-3-different-ways-75e4763c68cb](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-reverse-a-string-in-javascript-in-3-different-ways-75e4763c68cb)
+
+
+## External utilities
+`Bash` is a language to write "scripts" -- programs that can call
+external tools, such as
+[`sed`](https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/),
+[`awk`](https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/),
+[`date`](https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/date-invocation.html)
+and even programs written in other programming languages, 
+like [`Python`](https://www.python.org/).
+This track does not restrict the usage of these utilities, and as long
+as your solution is portable between systems and does not require
+installation of third party applications, feel free to use them to solve
+the exercise.
+
+For an extra challenge, if you would like to have a better understanding
+of the language, try to re-implement the solution in pure `Bash`,
+without using any external tools. Note that there are some types of
+problems that bash cannot solve, such as performing floating point
+arithmetic and manipulating dates: for those, you must call out to an
+external tool.
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others
+have completed the exercise.