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Creating an empty file

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jem122974

jem122974

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Nov 1, 2001
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Is there a command I can run to create an empty file?
 
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How about...

> filename

Jim Asman
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Code: 
touch PathnameOfFileToCreate

Hope This Help
PH.
 
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or

cat /dev/null > filename


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