How to create a file in Linux from terminal window?

Depending on what you want the file to contain:

touch /path/to/file for an empty file
somecommand > /path/to/file for a file containing the output of some command.

  eg: grep --help > randomtext.txt

      echo "This is some text" > randomtext.txt

nano /path/to/file or vi /path/to/file (or any other editor emacs,gedit etc)
It either opens the existing one for editing or creates & opens the empty file to enter, if it doesn't exist

3 years ago

I think the most effortless way should be:

touch somefile.txt

Using the touch command.

3 years ago

Create the file using cat
$ cat > myfile.txt
Now, just type whatever you want in the file:
Hello World!
CTRL-D to save and exit

3 years ago