How do I make a .txt file?

[LynxThe1st]

In Ubuntu 14.04

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tl;dr

how do I make a .txt file in 14.04 Ubuntu?

thanks

[GreezyJeezy]

can you not right click on the desktop and click text file? idk ubuntu  

[LynxThe1st]

1 minute ago, GreezyJeezy said:

can you not right click on the desktop and click text file? idk ubuntu  

sort of, but idk if it'll open in windows as a .txt file

since it opens as gedit which is linux's .txt

[Lurick]

You can just append any file extension in Linux to a file and so long as it contains the right character set it can be read just fine in Windows.

[LynxThe1st]

Just now, Lurick said:

You can just append any file extension in Linux to a file and so long as it contains the right character set it can be read just fine in Windows.

So I can just throw it into windows and it'll open normally?

[Lurick]

Just now, LynxThe1st said:

So I can just throw it into windows and it'll open normally?

Yup, you can even throw it in Windows without an extension and add the .txt to the name in Windows and it should work just fine.

[SkepticKrab]

Yea, just change the file extension while in Linux and it will work fine

[LynxThe1st]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

Yup, you can even throw it in Windows without an extension and add the .txt to the name in Windows and it should work just fine.

thanks man

[babadoctor]

touch (file name here)

[Naeaes]

notepad.exe will open any file that's text only. If you feel like it, you can save to .txt, but it's not necessary. It just has to be text only. I'm a friggin retard when it comes to linux but in WIndows it's entirely possible to create your own extension and open the files in notepad.exe.

Shift+right-click on the desktop and pick 'Open command window here'

type in or copy-paste the following line

echo All hail the mightly Naeaes >> Naeaes.naeaes

Hit enter, find the Naeaes.naeaes -file on your desktop, right-click it, pick Open with

Untick the 'Always use...' so you won't end up with an unnecessary registry entry for the .naeaes file extension, find notepad.exe and open it. Leave it ticked, and notepad will be the default program for your .naeaes files from now on.

 

 

[mariushm]

In Windows you can also do this :

 

copy CON c:\temp\file.txt

 

and press Ctrl+Z and ENTER when you're done to close the file and return back to console (command line). Ctrl+Z is short for "end of file" and ENTER simply submits the command.

 

The whole thing means copy what you type on console to file c:\temp\file.txt  (naturally the folder temp needs to exist, specify the full path or just a name if you want the file to be created in the current folder, the one listed before the prompt)

 

In Linux, you can use the touch command to create files. Linux has no concept of extensions (meaning programs don't use file extensions  to open files) but you're free to use extensions in the name of the files you create.

 

 

 

[Fetzie]

touch /path/to/directory/fileName.extension

 

so

 

touch /path/to/directory/textFile.txt

[iBurley]

For simply creating a text file with touch, as others have said you just do:

touch textfile.txt

If you want to do something like you were doing in that original command, where you add some text to the end of a file (creating it if it doesn't already exist) it would be:

echo "some text" >> textfile.txt

If you wanted to overwrite the whole file with the text, it would be:

echo "some text" > textfile.txt

Note that a single '>' means it's simply overwriting the file and double '>>' means it's appending to the end.

 

You can also send the output of a command to a text file with something like:

ifconfig > textfile.txt

Realistically though, all of these commands would place 'textfile.txt' into whatever directory you're currently in, so you'd really want to do something like:

ifconfig > ~/Documents/textfile.txt

The '~' being short for the current user's home directory. So that would be sending the file to /home/username/Documents/textfile.txt

 

Hope it helps!