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You can use a text editor to edit or create a text file. There are many editors in Linux such as nano, pico, vi, emacs. Let's try to use nano for creating a file

1. Launch nano to edit:

   nano myfirstfile.txt

2. Type the following text into it:

   He walked into his exile

3. Press Control+x, you will get a prompt at the bottom of the screen asking you to "Save modified buffer (Answering No will DESTROY CHANGES)". Press y as we want to save the changes, and then Enter to Save Changes and exit the nano editor.

4. Alternatively you can create the file with this command

   echo "He walked into his exile" > ~/myfirstfile.txt

In case, you are stuck, please see this video:

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1 Linux Introduction

2 Linux is closer to?

3 Linux Overview

4 Linux Operating System

5 Linux Files & Processes

6 Number of processes

7 File Name on restarting

8 Process on Computer Restart

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10 Linux Console

11 The Directory Structure

12 Relative and Absolute path

13 Relative File Names

14 Absolute and Relative Paths - 1

15 Absolute and Relative Paths - 2

16 Absolute and Relative Paths - 3

17 User manual of commands

18 Create Directory

19 Create Directory - nested

20 Create a directory when parent directory already exists

21 Delete a file

22 Create File

23 Create Text File Using Nano

24 Copy File

25 Use cases of cp command

26 Copy a file into another directory

27 Copy files of a particular extension

28 Copy a directory into another directory

29 Copy a directory along with files

30 Move Files & Directories

31 Use cases of mv command

32 Move a file to folder

33 Delete Files & Directories

34 Remove a directory

35 Seeing Inside File - cat, tail, head

36 Commands

37 Commands to print text of a file

38 Commands to print first few lines

39 Use find command

40 Searching files by name

41 Use find command to find files with .txt extension

42 Searching files by size

43 Extra functions of find command

44 Extra functions of find command exercise

45 Use grep command

46 Which line did you get in the result?

47 Use wc command

48 Check number of characters in a file

49 Permissions - Overview

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51 Permissions: Assignment - Check owner and group of a file

52 Permissions - Using chmod To Change

53 Permissions: Assignment - Owner can change, others can only read

54 Permission: Assignment - Everyone can execute

55 Permission: Assignment - Nobody other than owner can read the file

56 Permission: Assignment - Only Group Members can read

57 Permissions - Numeric

58 Permissions: Numeric representation

59 Permissions - Advanced

60 Who can delete a file

61 Process

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63 Find information about processes

64 BSD syntax of commands

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83 Files & Directories - More About Symbolic Link

84 Hard link and soft link exercise

85 Readlink Command

86 Hard Link to a Directory

87 Chaining Unix Commands

88 Redirecting the output of a program

89 Pipes - Introduction

90 Pipes Exercise

91 Filters

92 Word Count Exercise

93 Improved Word Count Using Unix Commands

94 Word Count Exercise

95 Shell script for WordCount

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