Use "touch" command in Windows

ManideepManideep
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The Unix command touch is used to create a file if it doesn't exist or if the file already exists we can Access and Modify timestamps.

But these UNIX commands will not work in Windows. So to create a new file, there are two touch equivalent commands in windows.

  1. type nul >> "index.js"
    
  2. copy nul >> "index.js"
    

    But most of the developers find these commands difficult to use, So there is a way to use the actual touch command in our windows.

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                     Yep! you heard it right. There is actually a way to do this.

There is an npm package called touch-cli which will allow us to use touch command.

Open up your terminal(command prompt) and paste the following code in it.

npm install touch-cli -g

Now you can use touch command in CMD.

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