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00:00Computer Science videos here today to show you guys in this tutorial how to

00:05create a text file using Terminal on a Mac computer. Without further ado, let us

00:10start the video. So in this tutorial you need to have access to a Mac computer to

00:14be able to use Terminal and Terminal commands to create a text file. So we're

00:21going to start the tutorial. We can now go over onto the Dock. Go to Launchpad

00:25search for the Command Prompt Terminal which should be built into the Mac

00:29computer. Let's now increase the size of the Terminal window. Increase the text

00:35size using Command plus a couple of times. Now before we create the text

00:43file that we wish to create and then use, let's now navigate to the desktop, CD

00:52Desktop, ls-l to view everything on the same line as we change directory. Now

01:01this is the most important part of the video. How to create a text file. How do

01:07we do it? The alternative method without using Terminal or commands is to go

01:15over onto the Dock. Go to Launchpad. Search for your favorite text editor and

01:21then we can create the text file from there. However, in this tutorial the

01:27command to do that is touch and then the name of the text file we wish to create.

01:37Let's just call it file.txt. Enter and there we see file.txt has now been

01:49created on the desktop. What we can do is open that text file if we wish to or we

01:57can open that inside the Terminal Command Prompt. So as you may have seen

02:07in the previous tutorial how that was done, let's do that again. So using the

02:20nano command, nano file, tab, enter and there we are inside the text file using

02:33the command prompt. So let's just type something.

02:38Hello, this is Computer Science Videos. Let's now exit the text file in the

02:58Terminal. Use the cat command to view the contents of the text file in Terminal

03:10and there we go. Hello, this is Computer Science Videos all from the Terminal.

03:19Just to recap, we changed directory to the desktop and listed everything on

03:26screen and then we used the touch command to create file.txt. Then we used

03:32nano to add content to the file.txt and finally the cat command to view

03:40everything on screen. So we can now clear the Terminal, CD, quit Terminal and so

03:51that's it with this video. I'll see you guys in the next tutorial. Thanks for now.

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