Creating a file in csh

[Kim Walden]

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

But "touch filename" does not create a zero length file, if the file
existed before.  Surely, this is what the discussion is all about?
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