shell question

supervillan · 10-19-2004, 11:04 PM

is there any shell command that writes to a file? something like...
$ command file.txt Hello World!
... and then the content of file.txt would be
Hello World!

I needed it badly yesterday so i wrote my own program to do this... but i think there is another way...

darthtux · 10-19-2004, 11:09 PM

echo 'Hello World!' > file.txt

supervillan · 10-19-2004, 11:17 PM

hahaha... me = noob

sorry for asking such a dumb question

darthtux · 10-19-2004, 11:33 PM

It was in no way dumb. Everybody has to learn.

Check out these resources.

http://tille.soti.org/training/bash/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://www.shelldorado.com/
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand.org/index.php

supervillan · 10-20-2004, 06:50 AM

Thanks. The links are great, especially because i intend to start programming for linux and get involved into a serious open source project . There still is a long way to go though... It's not enough to know c or c++, I still have to learn a lot about linux...