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From: toby@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Toby Harness)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.bugs
Subject: Re: Creating a file in csh
Message-ID: <426@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 16:01:47 EST
Article-I.D.: gargoyle.426
Posted: Fri Apr 12 16:01:47 1985
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References: <797@u1100a.UUCP> <254@tellab3.UUCP> <1581@ukma.UUCP> <>
Reply-To: toby@gargoyle.UUCP (Toby Harness)
Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science
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Summary: 

In article <> faigin@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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