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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Is there a command that's actually just for creating a new file?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

most shells will accept outputting from a silent command to a file, e.g. :> foo.txt (where : is the posix synonym to the true command)

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