Creating files

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 4/20/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 20:10 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote:
> > Hey mates,
> >
> > Can anyone tell me of a method to create a file (empty, no extension)
> > from the shell? I usually use nano, vim or emacs and just save and
> > empty buffer, but is there some-other single line syntax to creating a
> > file? something like [ mkdir DirName] in creating directories
>
> Five different people have suggested "touch filename", but here's
> another way:
>
> : > filename

I'll add my $0.02 to be funny:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1 count=0

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Chris

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