4.4.1 touch – Create an Empty File

One easy way to create an empty file is with touch. (We will see many other ways for creating files later in this book.) ^[feedback]

This screenshot starts with an empty directory, creates two files with touch and the lists those files. ^[feedback]

paul@debian7:~$ ls -l
total 0
paul@debian7:~$ touch file42
paul@debian7:~$ touch file33
paul@debian7:~$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 0 Oct 15 08:57 file33
-rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 0 Oct 15 08:56 file42
paul@debian7:~$