On 4/20/06, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Chris "I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford. I trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."
