What command makes a new file in terminal?

If mkdir creates a new directory, what creates a new file? for example "something.text".

I tried couple of commands mkdir (FileName) -- works fine. But I didn't know how to create a new file inside a directory. I know that I can always go to my project folder then create my new file but I want to know how to do that using terminal to increase productivity.

3 Answers

On Linux there are mutiple options

The typical used one is touch

touch bar.txt 

However you may also use echo if you want to create and write to the file right away

The following command tells to create bar.txt and put foo inside of it

echo foo > bar.txt 

You may also use >> which appends to an existing file

The following command puts bar at the end of bar.txt, in a other words, bar will display after foo inside bar.txt

echo bar >> bar.txt 

You can either use touch:

$ touch something.txt 

or > operator to redirect nothing to a file and effectively creating it:

$ > something.txt 

or

$ : > something.txt 

Note that last 2 commands will truncate file contents if file already exists.

If you mean on Linux so the command is touch.