help meee

mrryanthai · 10-16-2007, 02:51 AM

How do you create a file without using an editor?

acid_kewpie · 10-16-2007, 03:04 AM

please use better thread titles in future (and say please and thankyou...). also you need to explain more about what you actually mean here... i can run "echo test > /tmp/file" to create a file, is that what you mean?

gilead · 10-16-2007, 03:06 AM

You can also use the cat command and a "here" document. This is an example from the Linux From Scratch docs and creates the ~/.bashrc file:

Code:

cat > ~/.bashrc << "EOF"
set +h
umask 022
LFS=/mnt/lfs
LC_ALL=POSIX
PATH=/tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
export LFS LC_ALL PATH
EOF

For more info run man bash and search on here documents or run the same search on google.

selva146 · 10-16-2007, 03:22 AM

use the command touch

touch <filename> // creates the file