Creating a file in csh

[John Lowry]

In article <6177 at Glacier.ARPA> reid at Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) writes:
>Aw, come on, folks. "touch filename" is the best way to create an empty file.
>All of these other schemes, involving echo and cat and what have you,
>require that the poor person reading the code stop and think about what is
>going on, but the "touch" program will (by definition) do nothing other than
>create it.
>-- 
>	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
>	Stanford	reid at SU-Glacier.ARPA


Wrong.  If the file exists, touch will not create it and it will not
be empty, unless it was before.

--John Lowry