Can linux cat command be used for writing text to file?

Question

Is something like this:

cat \"Some text here.\" > myfile.txt

Possible? Such that the contents of myfile.txt would now be overwr

Answer 1

cat can also be used following a | to write to a file, i.e. pipe feeds cat a stream of data

Answer 2

Here's another way -

cat > outfile.txt
>Enter text
>to save press ctrl-d

Answer 3

Write multi-line text with environment variables using echo:

echo -e "
Home Directory: $HOME \n
hello world 1 \n
hello world 2 \n
line n... \n
" > file.txt 

Answer 4

simply pipeline echo with cat

For example

echo write something to file.txt | cat > file.txt

Answer 5

Sounds like you're looking for a Here document

cat > outfile.txt <<EOF
>some text
>to save
>EOF

Answer 6

The Solution to your problem is :

echo " Some Text Goes Here " > filename.txt

But you can use cat command if you want to redirect the output of a file to some other file or if you want to append the output of a file to another file :

cat filename > newfile -- To redirect output of filename to newfile

cat filename >> newfile -- To append the output of filename to newfile