[sprior]

I raised eyebrows recently when I was working with someone and we needed to create a file and instead of starting an editor I did: cat > filename ... Ctrl-D

[przemub]

Oh I always do that! Send them my greetings.

[bonsai_spool]

Why not touch or echo? No reason for an editor or cat

[stouset]

You can type the intended file contents as-is.

[sprior]

For a one line file sure, but I was creating multiple lines.