What's the easiest way to create a file in Linux terminal?
More Linux resources. To save a file, you must first be in Command mode. Press Esc to enter Command mode, and then type :wq to write and quit the file. The other, quicker option is to use the keyboard shortcut ZZ to write and quit.
Now when you connect to the machine via SSH, just type screen and press Space. You will be back to your normal terminal.
Depending on what you want the file to contain:
touch /path/to/file
for an empty filesomecommand > /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
Use touch
touch filename
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