Can linux cat command be used for writing text to file?

Question

Is something like this:

cat \"Some text here.\" > myfile.txt

Possible? Such that the contents of myfile.txt would now be overwr

Answer 1

Write multi-line text with environment variables using echo:

echo -e "
Home Directory: $HOME \n
hello world 1 \n
hello world 2 \n
line n... \n
" > file.txt