From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 21 17:15:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20232 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:15:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netra.graphnet.com (netra.graphnet.com [192.206.112.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20221 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:15:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from romank@graphnet.com) Received: from romankat (ppp-20.nyc.globalis.net [195.90.46.23]) by netra.graphnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA12850; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 20:14:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35DE0E3E.75A9C224@graphnet.com> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 20:18:07 -0400 From: Roman Katsnelson Organization: Graphnet, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lanny Baron CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making a file (empty) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > can someone please tell me how to create an empy file? touch FILENAME i'm not sure what the default permissions are, so it's a good idea to check and avoid a pain in the ass later. hth, roman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message