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Depending on what you want the file to contain:

touch /path/to/file
for an empty file
somecommand > /path/to/file
for a file containing the output of some command.
eg: grep --help > randomtext.txt echo "This is some text" > randomtext.txtnano /path/to/file
or
vi /path/to/file
or
any other editor emacs,gedit etcIt either opens the existing one for editing or creates & opens the empty file to enter, if it doesn't exist

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