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

Question

My command is something like this:

cat "Some text here." > myfile.txt

Possible? Such that my contents of the myfile.txt would now be overwritten to:

Some text here.

This is not working for me but also doesn't throw errors.

Specifically interested in the cat-based solution (not vim/vi/emacs, etc.). 

Answer 1

This what echo does:

echo "Some text here." > myfile.txt

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