Creating content with 'hugo new' does not work

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Brand new Hugo install today, V0.159.2, on Mac, using homebrew. Following QuickStart guide, everything is going fine until I get to the step where you use

hugo new content content/posts/my-first-post.md

to create your first post…and nothing happens. It simply hangs and never creates the file. There’s no error - there is no reply in the terminal afterwards, and the file is never created.

I’m definitely cd’d to the right location (quickstart); what in the world could be causing this?

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Although many people use Homebrew without any problems, if I were you, as a first step, I’d either:

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Well, don’t I feel silly: it didn’t occur to me that just turning it off and on again (uninstalling and reinstalling with Homebrew) would make a difference, but it did and it’s working now. Thank you!

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