Create a new file in terminal
To create a new file in the terminal, you can use the following command:
touch filename.txt
Replace filename.txt
with the name you want to give your file. This will create a new file with the specified name in the current directory.
For example, if you want to create a file called example.txt
, you would use the following command:
touch example.txt
This will create a new file called example.txt
in the current directory.
If you want to create a file in a specific directory, you can specify the path to that directory followed by the filename. For example:
touch /path/to/directory/example.txt
This will create a new file called example.txt
in the /path/to/directory
directory.
Note: If the file already exists, touch
will not overwrite it. Instead, it will update the file's timestamp to the current time. If you want to overwrite an existing file, you can use the -a
option:
touch -a filename.txt
This will overwrite the existing file with the same name.