Can I create a file from the command line

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I want to create a file explicitly from the command line without going in to the file directly just create it. Can I do that? Thanks in advance.

2

man touch

hehehe, how often does a unix command open itself up to a perfect "that's what she said"

3

nice thanks

4

Or, without using an external command:

: >filename

(In any Bourne-style shell but zsh, simply ">filename" will work; zsh will insert a default command (whose default value is "cat").)

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Please check the manual.

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You mean this one ("REDIRECTIONS WITH NO COMMAND" in zshmisc(1))?

   Otherwise, if the parameter NULLCMD is set, its value will be used as a
   command with the given redirections.  If both NULLCMD  and  READNULLCMD
   are  set,  then the value of the latter will be used instead of that of
   the former when the redirection is an input.  The default  for  NULLCMD
   is \`cat' and for READNULLCMD is \`more'.

If and only if zsh is run with the name sh or ksh, NULLCMD is set to ':' for compatibility.