Is There a Way To Create a New Text Document Without Manually Opening Gedit?

Grace123 · March 21, 2016, 2:04pm

Hello,

Is there a way to create a new text document without having to drill down and manually open a text editor like gedit? I have an option to create a new folder in the right-click context menu; but not one to create a new document. How can this be done?

Thanks

malcolmlewis · March 21, 2016, 2:33pm

Hi
Yup, use the ~/Templates folder eg;


cd ~/Templates
touch "New text.txt"
touch "New script.sh"
touch "New perl.pl"

Now if you right click in the folder a new menu item will appear called “New Document” with the above examples, you can edit the files to add default info say for example your script.sh to already contain the full shebang (#!/usr/bin/bash).

Grace123 · March 21, 2016, 6:32pm

malcolmlewis:

Hi
Yup, use the ~/Templates folder eg;
cd ~/Templates
touch "New text.txt"
touch "New script.sh"
touch "New perl.pl"
Now if you right click in the folder a new menu item will appear called “New Document” with the above examples, you can edit the files to add default info say for example your script.sh to already contain the full shebang (#!/usr/bin/bash).

Cool, Thanks

keellambert · March 21, 2016, 6:46pm

or try the cmd

touch trial.txt

where trial.txt is the new file name

this will create a file of 0 bytes in the current directory

cheers

NB. Not as good as original reply