Believe it or not, this is one of the most popular questions by which my blog is found by search engines. I use a very nice tool, located at 103bees.com, which helps me know how people are actually find about me on the net. By the way, since we are here, I recommend you their last post, which deals with 5 simple steps to boost your AdSense income, which I guess could be pretty interesting for everybody.
So, knowing that this particular topic is so hot, I thought it would be interesting to show you another way of creating text files on Mac OS, this time without Quicksilver. For those of you who don’t kow the original post, here is a more detailed description of using Quicksilver for creating text files, prepending or appending text to them.
The trick is basically a linux shell hack, which any normal linux user knows, or used in his days. But Mac OS users are not like Linux users, like I learned after one of my most commented posts on digg, so here’s the simple trick:
1. Start Terminal. I have it in the dock, because I am so used to it, but this is not the default setup. For those of you who don’t know where to find it, try “Applications / Utilities”, you’ll find it there.
2. Change your folder to the desired location for your future text file, let’s say by:
cd /Users/yourusername/Desktop/
if you want to create the text file on your Desktop. Of course, change “yourusername” with your real username on that Mac.
3. Issue this simple command:
echo “this line created with terminal” > filename.txt
The part between quotes will be the first line of your file, and the name of your file will be filename.txt.
Simple as a Mac.
P.S. If you think this was actually too simple, think at how you can make a best usage out of it when used in Automator for instance, as an intermediary shell action between two other commands. As a matter of fact, I’m just thinking right now of something like this. But more on that soon.
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You can do this with QuickSilver. Very easy.
Already done, as you can see in the initial post. This is just another way to do it, there are a lot of situation when this simple thing called redirection can be handy, Automator being one of them. And I agree with you that with Quicksilver, if you only want to create a file and nothing more, it’s easier…