linux:files:create
Create or update a file.
$ touch ${filename}
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This command creates a new empty file with the specified filename.
The touch command is used to update the timestamp of a file, but if the file does not exist, it creates a new empty file with the given name. The curly braces surrounding the filename are used to substitute the variable's value. Therefore, when executed with a specific value for the variable, touch would create a new file with that value as its name.
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