- #HOW TO RUN APPLE TEXTEDIT FROM TERMINAL MANUAL#
- #HOW TO RUN APPLE TEXTEDIT FROM TERMINAL FULL#
- #HOW TO RUN APPLE TEXTEDIT FROM TERMINAL MAC#
There's also a command called wc which will give you a word count. We can do it again and it's a new random order. Now we get those 500 lines but in a random order. So sort and then dash and a capital R, and then test.txt.
#HOW TO RUN APPLE TEXTEDIT FROM TERMINAL MANUAL#
You could look at the manual page for sort to find all sorts of cool things you could do with it including to be able to randomly shuffle the line. Now we could see we get this file here which is a sorted list. Now if we wanted to output this to a new file we could do sort, then the name of the file, then dash o, and the name of the new file. So we get 500 lines scrolling up and you could see they are in alphabetical order. It's going to just give the output right to the screen. We can use the sort command to sort a file so every line is sorted alphabetically. I could hit Return to go line by line or spacebar to jump through pages and read more about Less or any of these other commands I'm using to see what they are capable of.
#HOW TO RUN APPLE TEXTEDIT FROM TERMINAL FULL#
So you want to use the manual, man, and then the name of the command and then you get this full manual here that tells you everything you could do with the file. Now with a lot of terminal apps like this there's a ton of functionality. So I can navigate through this file to see what's in it. I can use the arrow keys to go down and up and even spacebar to jump by page. So, less test.txt and now I see all the lines but it stops there at the bottom. Less is a little app that's a viewer for you to be able to see text files. I can type cat and the name but it's going to scroll up 500 lines. I could change the number of lines by using something like tail or head dash n and a number like 5 and the name of the file. tail and the file name will give me the last ten lines. I could use the command head and type the file name. Let's say I didn't want to see all of the lines of this file. So let's work with this one in the Terminal. So in this case I've created a new test file that is just a list of 500 random names. Now a lot of times when you want to work with text files you already have a text file. I've merged two files here but I could merge many more. If I open it up in TextEdit I can see it has both there. We'll call this test.txt and it creates this new file here. If I also add to the line test2.txt it'll show me both files concatenated. If I do cat test1.txt I would get the contents of that file. So now you can see I've got two files, test1 and test2.
I'm going to up arrow to go back to this and I'm going to change the text here to this and I'm going to have it save this out to test2.txt. Now you can see it changed names right here on the desktop. So let's rename this test file using the Move command, mv. So what it actually can do is show us the results of several files, one after the other. I'll hit Return and it will show me the contents of that file. If I type t and then hit tab it'll fill the rest in since there are no other files that begin with the letter t. Now I don't have to type it all out because there's only one file on the desktop. So I'll use cat space and I'll type the name. Now what if we wanted to view that in the Terminal.
So there you can see it just contains that text. Let's double click it to open it up in TextEdit and see what we've got. So I'll hit Return and sure enough there's the text file. Now I'm actually at the desktop so you should see the file appear over here.
But if we use the same command, I'm going to use the up arrow to repeat the command, and I'm going to use greater than> to send the result of this Echo function to a file. We're going to use the Echo command and then we'll put some text in single quotes. There's a lot of different commands that you should know. So let's say you're in the Terminal like this and you want to work with some basic text files. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 700 supporters. Today let's look at working with Text Files using Command Line Functions and Apps in the Terminal. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.
#HOW TO RUN APPLE TEXTEDIT FROM TERMINAL MAC#
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