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 > 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.
