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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Quick Creation of Text Files From the Command Line</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davidklinems/archive/2006/02/09/528851.aspx</link><description>It's a sunny day here in the Seattle area, so let's have some command line fun. :) Have you ever needed to create a small text file while working at a command line? I've been using the following technique since my MS-DOS days. Creating files at the command</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)</generator><item><title>re: Quick Creation of Text Files From the Command Line</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davidklinems/archive/2006/02/09/528851.aspx#528975</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:29:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:528975</guid><dc:creator>fpillet</dc:creator><description>If you use cygwin (FWIW, it plays well with .bat scripts and regular .exe while letting you harness the true power of a unix command line) all you need to do is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;echo &amp;quot;This is a simple file&amp;quot; &amp;gt; file.txt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and if you want to append:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;echo &amp;quot;This is a simple addition&amp;quot; &amp;gt;&amp;gt; file.txt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now -- what's the equivalent when using the Monad shell? ;-)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=528975" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>