Creating Files
To create a blank file you can use the touch1 command.
$ touch hello.txt
This is situationally useful, but more often than not you will create files using a program called a "text editor."
There are some text editors, like vim, which run entirely
inside the terminal.2
At the start of this book I showed you VSCodium. If you weren't otherwise shown a different option, that is a decent default. You can use it to create and edit files.
1
This is called touch because it will "touch" a file and update its "last updated timestamp" but change nothing else.
2
These have their die hard supporters. The lunatics.
3
This book has been written inside Visual Studio Code.