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'? -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.