Creating a file in csh

Toby Harness toby at gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP
Sat Apr 13 07:01:47 AEST 1985


In article <> faigin at sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel Faigin) writes:
>>Since, with csh, there is no longer an easy way to create an empty
>>file.  (With sh one could type just ">new.file").
>Actually, the easiest way to create an empty file in csh is:
>	cat < /dev/null > newfile

Try ":>new.file"

Toby Harness		Ogburn/Stouffer Center, University of Chicago
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