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echo "text" >> 'Users/Name/Desktop/TheAccount.txt' How do I make it so it creates the file if it doesn't exist, but overwrites it if it already exists. Right now this script just appends.
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Overwriting a File, Part 1 To edit the settings for a file, locate the file you wish to overwrite and hover over the file name. Click the chevron button that appears to the right of the file name and select Overwrite File from the menu.
Example 1: Using the open() method to overwrite a file. To overwrite a file, to write new content into a file, we have to open our file in “w” mode, which is the write mode. It will delete the existing content from a file first; then, we can write new content and save it. We have a new file with the name “myFile. txt”.
Python file write() function Due to a flag, it will append the content after the existing content. It does not overwrite the content.
The >> redirection operator will append lines to the end of the specified file, where-as the single greater than > will empty and overwrite the file.
echo "text" > 'Users/Name/Desktop/TheAccount.txt' In Bash, if you have set noclobber a la set -o noclobber, then you use the syntax >|
For example:
echo "some text" >| existing_file This also works if the file doesn't exist yet
Check if noclobber is set with: set -o | grep noclobber
For a more detailed explanation on this special type of operator, see this post
For a more exhaustive list of redirection operators, refer to this post
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