Creating files
kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
Thu Apr 20 20:03:25 UTC 2006
On Thursday 20 April 2006 13:52, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 20 April 2006 14:10, 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
>
> Have you never heard of 'touch'?
Likewise you can re-direct nothing to a filename like this (without the double
quotes of course):
"> newfile"
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
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