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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)
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[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

Creating an empty file is one of its intended purposes. Unix commands were designed as multi-purpose primitives, so they could be reused and composed to handle many different tasks. The touch command is no exception.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0&t=287s

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