Raspberry Pi Cookbook, 3rd Edition by Simon Monk

Author:Simon Monk [Simon Monk]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Published: 2019-10-25T04:00:00+00:00

3.9 Creating a File Without Using an Editor

Problem

You want to create a one-line file without having to use an editor.

Solution

Use the > and echo commands to redirect what you type on the command line to a file.

For example:

$ echo "file contents here" > test.txt $ more test.txt file contents here

Warning

The > command overwrites any existing file, so use it with caution.

Discussion

This can be useful for quickly creating a file.

See Also

To use the more command to view files without using an editor, see Recipe 3.8.

To use > to capture other kinds of system output, see Recipe 3.31.

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