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Title: writing a text file in the terminal with touch
ID: /2017/03/26/writing-a-text-file-in-the-terminal-with-touch
Created: March 26, 2017
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If I understand your question correctly you want to use:

echo "hello" > ~/Desktop/new_file.txt && echo "world" >> ~/Desktop/new_file.txt

Then to check the results use cat ~/Desktop/new_file.txt which shows:

hello
world

There’s a shorter way of doing this but I’m kind of new to Linux myself.

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