Creating files

[Anthony Messina]

kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com wrote:
> 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"

kevin, that is the most phenomenal thing i've seen since i've started
using linux.  i laughed when i read it -  because it's a great way to do
it!  although i wasn't the one asking the question, that's a great way
to think outside the box.

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Anthony

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