This post will guide you on how to create a file using “touch” command. The touch command is easy to use and there are two reason to use it.
1. To create a file.
2. To update a file’s modification date.
The touch command is part file utilities package and has several options.
How to create new files using touch ?
[root@server ~]# touch newtestfile1 [root@server ~]# ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 11 10:43 newtestfile1
Descriptions :
As you can see, touch creates a file with a length, or size, of zero