Oh wow, I didn't know that about touch. Thank you for clarifying this here.
touch
I tried the < & that didn't seem to work on mac or linux.
<
Weird, I've tried it in both systems and it works flawlessly.
Just to be sure, did you type in < filetoread? A lack of example might've been the problem in my post.
< filetoread
Try this:
echo "some text" > new_file.txt
or this (which means basically "write data to the file until you meet EOF label"):
cat > new_file.txt << EOF new line another line EOF
> will rewrite contents of the file >> will append to the end of the file
>
>>
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Oh wow, I didn't know that about
touch
. Thank you for clarifying this here.I tried the
<
& that didn't seem to work on mac or linux.Weird, I've tried it in both systems and it works flawlessly.
Just to be sure, did you type in
< filetoread
? A lack of example might've been the problem in my post.Try this:
or this (which means basically "write data to the file until you meet EOF label"):
>
will rewrite contents of the file>>
will append to the end of the file