14: Creating empty files with the touch command

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The following sections will deal with Unix commands that help us to work with files, i.e. copy files to/from places, move files, rename files, remove files, and most importantly, look at files. First, we need to have some files to play with. The Unix command touch will let us create a new, empty file. The touch command does other things too, but for now we just want a couple of files to work with.

learner@:learning_unix$ touch heaven.txt
learner@:learning_unix$ touch earth.txt
learner@:learning_unix$ ls
earth.txt  heaven.txt