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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

How To Create A Text File on the Command line in Windows?

Just follow these simple steps:

1. Open the Command Prompt / Terminal
2. Type the command in the following format :
          Editor fileName.fileExtension

As shown in the example on Figure 1 below, we used Notepad as text editor. So we came up with the command :

          notepad test.txt    


Figure 1



3. Press the Enter key.
  

Figure 2




4. You'll be shown with a popup message asking you if you want to create a new file. Just click "Yes" and you're done!


Figure 3