A text (TXT) file contains unformatted text with the file extension .txt (e.g., macreports.txt). By unformatted, it is meant that these type of text files are plain text files without any styling and formatting, for instance, these documents do not have bold texts, italic texts, images, colors, different font types, hyperlinks, tables, bulleted lists etc. These documents just have plain texts. A TXT file can be created, opened and edited on a Mac with a text editor. An example of a text editor is TextEdit, which is included with the macOS software. Here is how you can create a text file:
Open and use TextEdit and create a text file
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On Windows, meanwhile, many applications keep running in the system tray after you close their windows. So neither operating system sticks to its given paradigm 100 percent, because each approach makes sense in certain contexts. But in general, apps tend to follow these two trends for each platform. How to Quit Apps in macOS.
- Open the TextEdit app on your Mac (Applications > TextEdit, or use Spotlight, press Command-Space bar, to search, find and open TextEdit). TextEdit is a text editing and word processing tool that comes with your Mac.
- In the TextEdit app, choose File > Open. TextEdit has two format modes: (a) plain text (.txt file) and (b) rich text (.rtf file). The difference is that .txt mode will not allow formatting, while .rtf mode will let you format like adding images, colors, tables etc.
- Default format is rich text format. You can change this by going to TextEdit > Preferences and select Plain Text.
- You can also change the mode while you editing your text by going to Format > Make Plain Text or Format > Make Rich Text. If you change a .rtf file (rich text) to .txt file (plain text), your document will lose all formatting options.
- Create and edit your text file
- And then go to File > Save to save your text file.
- Name your file and save it.
You can also create more rich documents, you can use Pages, Pages for iCloud or similar apps. One other note is that text files are also known as flat files or ASCII files.
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Terminal User Guide
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The shell uses environment variables to store information, such as the name of the current user, the name of the host computer, and the default paths to any commands. Environment variables are inherited by all commands executed in the shell’s context, and some commands depend on environment variables.
You can create environment variables and use them to control the behavior of a command without modifying the command itself. For example, you can use an environment variable to have a command print debug information to the console. Shadowhand (2017).
To set the value of an environment variable, use the appropriate shell command to associate a variable name with a value. For example, to set the variable PATH to the value
/bin:/sbin:/user/bin:/user/sbin:/system/Library/
, you would enter the following command in a Terminal window:% PATH=/bin:/sbin:/user/bin:/user/sbin:/system/Library/ export PATH
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To view all environment variables, enter:
When you launch an app from a shell, the app inherits much of the shell’s environment, including exported environment variables. This form of inheritance can be a useful way to configure the app dynamically. For example, your app can check for the presence (or value) of an environment variable and change its behavior accordingly.
Different shells support different semantics for exporting environment variables. For information, see your preferred shell’s man page.
Although child processes of a shell inherit the environment of that shell, shells are separate execution contexts that don’t share environment information with each other. Variables you set in one Terminal window aren’t set in other Terminal windows.
After you close a Terminal window, variables you set in that window are no longer available. If you want the value of a variable to persist across sessions and in all Terminal windows, you must set it in a shell startup script. For information about modifying your zsh shell startup script to keep variables and other settings across multiple sessions, see the “Invocation” section of the zsh man page.
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