Re: Creating files

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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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