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Part 2 Creating a Quick Text File
- Type cat > filename.txt into Terminal. You’ll replace “filename” with your preferred text file name (e.g., “sample”).
- Press ↵ Enter .
- Enter your document’s text.
- Press Ctrl + Z .
- Type ls -l filename.txt into Terminal.
- Press ↵ Enter .
Create and extract a .tar.gz archive using command line
- To create a tar.gz archive from a given folder you can use the following command. tar -zcvf tar-archive-name.tar.gz source-folder-name.
- To extract a tar.gz compressed archive you can use the following command. tar -zxvf tar-archive-name.tar.gz.
- To Preserve permissions.
- Switch the ‘c’ flag to an ‘x’ to extract (uncompress).
Part 2 Creating a Quick Text File
- Type cat > filename.txt into Terminal. You’ll replace “filename” with your preferred text file name (e.g., “sample”).
- Press ↵ Enter .
- Enter your document’s text.
- Press Ctrl + Z .
- Type ls -l filename.txt into Terminal.
- Press ↵ Enter .
Creating & formatting img files in Ubuntu
- This will create a file called “file.img” in your home directory with a size of 50 MB.
- of=file.img => output file, file name & location.
- count=50 => Size of the file in MB.
Using ‘vim’ to create and edit a file
- Log into your server via SSH.
- Navigate to the directory location you wish to create the file, or edit an existing file.
- Type in vim followed by the name of the file.
- Click the letter ‘i’ on your keyboard to enter INSERT mode in ‘vim’.
- Start typing into the file.
How to create a PEM file with the help of an automated script:
- Download NetIQ Cool Tool OpenSSL-Toolkit.
- Select Create Certificates. | PEM with key and entire trust chain.
- Provide the full path to the directory containing the certificate files.
- Provide the filenames of the following:
Instructions
- Connect to a shell or open a terminal/console on your Linux/Unix machine.
- To create an archive of a directory and its contents you would type the following and press enter: tar -cvf name.tar /path/to/directory.
- To create an archive of certfain files you would type the following and press enter:
How do you create a new file in Unix?
There are multiple ways to create a file in unix.
- touch command: It will create an empty file in directory specified.
- vi command (or nano): You can use any editor to create a file.
- cat command: Although cat is used to view file, but you can use this to create file as well from terminal.
How do you create a text file?
Another way to create a text file is to right-click on your desktop screen and in the menu that appears, click New and then click Text Document. Creating a text file this way opens your default text editor with a blank text file on your desktop. You can change the name of the file to anything you want.
