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How to create a 0-byte file in ksh.

This is probably obvious, but Google seems to have let me down. I need to create a file with a zero byte with arbitrary names on Unix (AIX, ksh). What is a good team that will do this. Something I can script, obviously.

Just to be clear, I'm not doing anything stupid. This is a script for generating specific test scripts. (Checking the correct behavior when processing files with 0 bytes.)

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Save keystrokes and unnecessary process, redirect:

$ > file
$ ls
file
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I get it.

touch $filename will do it.

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Use dd:

dd if=/dev/null of=zero.out bs=0 count=0
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