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 Paul.