sumitkhanna

 Profile Answers by sumitkhanna Questions by sumitkhanna

• Jun 10th, 2008

 

Touch command is to create the 0 kb file and we can create several file at the same time. Example

Touch a b c d e

It will create 5( a b c d e) 0 KB files at the same time.

However, cat command help to create the file in writable format. once you write cat > file name it will allow you to type the text, enter ctrl+d to save and exit. if you will check  with the commant cat filename it will show the content of the file

xabiullah

 Profile Answers by xabiullah 

• May 4th, 2009

 

1.Touch:
          If file is already existing, it will update the time stamp.
          If the file does not exist, then 'touch file_name' creates a new file with 0 KB file size.

2. Cat:
        Dumps the contents of the file to the standard output , if no options specified.

samkrish11

 Profile Answers by samkrish11 

• Apr 20th, 2010

 

Touch command is used to create an empty file.

cat command is used to view the contents of a file.