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From: reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
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Subject: Re: Creating a file in csh
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Date: Sat, 13-Apr-85 01:52:43 EST
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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.
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	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA