Bash create new file with content

How to BASH create a new file with content in Linux? Bash script the essential for DevOps Roles. You can use commands below

touch command to create an empty file: touch FILENAME
cat command to create a text file: cat > FILENAME
Write the contents to a file:
cat << “EOF” > /path/to/yourfilename
     write the contents to a file
     Use cat HERO DOCUMENT write content file
EOF

For example, My bash create new file with content.

I will create file jarservice in /etc/init.d/jarservice to java run jar as service on centos 6 as below.

#!/bin/bash
# Author: HuuPV2
yourservice=jarservice
touch /etc/init.d/$yourservice

cat << "EOF" > /etc/init.d/$yourservice
#!/bin/bash
SERVICE_NAME=$yourservice
PATH_TO_JAR=/path/to/yourapplication.jar
LOG_DIR=/var/log/yourapplication.log
PID_PATH_FILE=/var/run/yourapplication.pid
case $1 in
  start)
     echo "Starting $SERVICE_NAME ..."
     if [ ! -f $PID_PATH_FILE ]; then
        nohup java -jar $PATH_TO_JAR >> $LOG_DIR 2>&1&
        echo $! > $PID_PATH_FILE
        echo "$SERVICE_NAME started ..."
     else
        echo "$SERVICE_NAME is already running ..."
     fi
     ;;
  stop)
     if [ -f $PID_PATH_FILE ]; then
        PID=$(cat $PID_PATH_FILE);
        echo "$SERVICE_NAME stoping ..."
        kill $PID;
        echo "$SERVICE_NAME stopped ..."
        rm $PID_PATH_FILE
     else
        echo "$SERVICE_NAME is not running ..."
     fi
     ;;
     *)
     echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
     exit 2
esac 
EOF
chmod +x /etc/init.d/$yourservice
echo "Welcome to www.devopsroles.com"

Run Bash create a new file with content

[huupv@huupv devopsroles]$ chmod +x bash_new_file.sh 
[huupv@huupv devopsroles]$ sudo ./bash_new_file.sh

The screen output terminal:

Conclusion

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