Re: How to create file with 0 bytes (length) ?

On Jul 6, 10:50 pm, p...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

That said, I spent a few minutes playing around at the DOS prompt
and all that seems necessary is to run some command that writes
nothing to STDOUT and redirect to a file.  For example:

  echo. > tempfile.$$$
  del tempfile.$$$ > zerosize.fil

creates a zero length file.

rem > tempfile.$$$

is one easy way; REM doesn't display anything to stdout. Even easier,
using 4DOS, is

tempfile.$$$

i.e. redirect output without executing any command!

--
Charles Dye
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