From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 21 18:54:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA04708 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 18:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gimli.cs.uct.ac.za (gimli.cs.uct.ac.za [137.158.128.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04697 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 18:54:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwest@gimli.cs.uct.ac.za) Received: from mwest (helo=localhost) by gimli.cs.uct.ac.za with local-smtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zA2s7-0004bl-00; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 03:53:39 +0200 Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 03:53:39 +0200 (SAST) From: Matthew West To: Roman Katsnelson cc: Lanny Baron , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making a file (empty) In-Reply-To: <35DE0E3E.75A9C224@graphnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > > 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. Default permissions are 022, unless you've changed your umask. --mwest@cs.uct.ac.za http://www.cs.uct.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message