cat command for text files
 

hey all, i remember reading that there was a command with cat that allowed me to enter, which will let me type some text into a file and ends when i hit enter or esc.

Does anyone recall what the console command is?

Thanks.

There is, I was following instructions the other day that had me use it. Can't remember what it was though :( I'll hunt around my history see if I can find it...

Okay, it's actually simple I figured it out playing in the console trying to remember:
Then you'll be able to type stuff in, easy :) Ctrl-D to dump input to file and exit.

Very good and you can do this to append to an existing file
cat >>filename.txt

Another variation on the cat command to write text files.

cat > filename.txt << end

This capture all input until the word "end" is typed then automatically dump to "filename.txt"

KC

thanks guys :)