Open and write data to text file using Bash?

The short answer:

echo "some data for the file" >> fileName

However, echo doesn't deal with end of line characters (EOFs) in an ideal way. So, if you're gonna append more than one line, do it with printf:

printf "some data for the file\nAnd a new line" >> fileName

The >> and > operators are very useful for redirecting output of commands, they work with multiple other bash commands.

#!/bin/sh

FILE="/path/to/file"

/bin/cat <<EOM >$FILE
text1
text2 # This comment will be inside of the file.
The keyword EOM can be any text, but it must start the line and be alone.
 EOM # This will be also inside of the file, see the space in front of EOM.
EOM # No comments and spaces around here, or it will not work.
text4 
EOM