File Handling
Bash provides lots of commands for manipulating files on the Linux filesystem. This section walks through the basic commands you will need to work with files from the CLI for all your file-handling needs.
Creating Files
Every once in a while you will run into a situation where you need to create an empty file. Sometimes applications expect a log file to be present before they can write to it. In these situations, you can use the touch command to easily create an empty file:
The touch command creates the new file you specify and assigns your username as the file owner.
Notice that the file size is zero, since the touch ...
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