How to create a file in Linux from terminal window

Question

What's the easiest way to create a file in a Linux terminal?

Answer 1

Depending on what you want the file to contain:

• touch /path/to/file for an empty file

• somecommand > /path/to/file for a file containing the output of some command.
  eg: grep --help > randomtext.txt echo "This is some text" > randomtext.txt

• nano /path/to/file or vi /path/to/file (or any other editor emacs,gedit etc)
  It either opens the existing one for editing or creates & opens the empty file to enter, if it doesn't exist