how can i create a file and writte it on rxvt?

You could use vi or vim, but if you don't know this editor you will probably not be able to even close it once you've started it.

An easier editor is for example pico, but that might not be installed.



There are lots of other options.



Does it have to be in an rxvt/xterm? Can't you open an editor like nedit or something?

yes it has to be in rxvt i dont have nothing else that i know... it was a linux for win install and the space was short .... and now all i have is rxvt thats why i need to create and writte files (text) on the rxvt i know how to make directories md but not files or writte then

It sounds like you don't have the X windowing system running because you were short on disk space. But you also say that you have an rxvt and as far as I know, that's a window with a shell in it.

So I'm a bit confused if you're running X or not. If so, just try running nedit and also (if you have a bar full of buttons) try to find a text editor in the menu's.

What distribution did you install by the way?

i have the mandrake 8.0 but i dont have kde or gnome i chose other on install when it boot goes to window maker loads the scream without window just the blue screen and informactions on the up rigth conner and on the left up cornner it has a small box with the number from the pages 1 to 4 on the left clik opens the selection menus but they are all enpty execpt the terminal rxvt and desemvolment that has python thats why i´m looking for the two comands to create and writte in a file from rxvt , i would really be greateful to you if you could told me thouse two comands if they exist i have tryed :w :e filename but does not work.

if it's only a few lines of simple text you want to get into a textfile, then it is possible to use echo and then redirect the output to a file.



For example if I want to put the following text in a file:

Test line 1

Test line 2



I would do this in a shell:

echo Test line 1 > filename.txt

echo Test line 2 >> filename.txt



And then to look at the file you can of course use cat, more or less.



less filename.txt

cat filename.txt

more filename.txt

If all you want to do is create an empty file, you can do the following:
touch filename

thanks you really help me thanks

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