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I raised eyebrows recently when I was working with someone and we needed to create a file and instead of starting an editor I did: cat > filename ... Ctrl-D

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Oh I always do that! Send them my greetings.

Why not touch or echo? No reason for an editor or cat

You can type the intended file contents as-is.

For a one line file sure, but I was creating multiple lines.

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