Аналог команды touch для windows

asked May 3, 2015 at 7:20

An easy way to replace the touch command on a windows command line like cmd would be:

type nul > your_file.txt

This will create 0 bytes in the your_file.txt file.

This would also be a good solution to use in windows batch files.

Another way of doing it is by using the echo command:

echo.> your_file.txt

echo. — will create a file with one empty line in it.

If you need to preserve the content of the file use >> instead of >

>   Creates a new file
>>  Preserves content of the file

Example

type nul >> your_file.txt

You can also use call command.

Calls one batch program from another without stopping the parent batch program. The call command accepts labels as the target of the call.

Example:

call >> your_file.txt

—
or even if you don’t want make it hard you can Just install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Then, type.

wsl touch

or

wsl touch textfilenametoedit.txt

Quotes are not needed.

answered Jun 10, 2016 at 20:43

Windows does not natively include a touch command.

You can use any of the available public versions or you can use your own version. Save this code as touch.cmd and place it somewhere in your path

@echo off
    setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion

    (for %%a in (%*) do if exist "%%~a" (
        pushd "%%~dpa" && ( copy /b "%%~nxa"+,, & popd )
    ) else (
        type nul > "%%~fa"
    )) >nul 2>&1

It will iterate over it argument list, and for each element if it exists, update the file timestamp, else, create it.

answered May 3, 2015 at 20:27

You can use this command: ECHO >> filename.txt

it will create a file with the given extension in the current folder.

UPDATE:

for an empty file use: copy NUL filename.txt

answered Feb 23, 2016 at 21:42

On windows Power Shell, you can use the following command:

New-Item <filename.extension>

or

New-Item <filename.extension> -type file

Note: New-Item can be replaced with its alias ni

answered Nov 5, 2018 at 7:05

I’m surprised how many answers here are just wrong. Echoing nothing into a file will fill the file with something like ECHO is ON, and trying to echo $nul into a file will literally place $nul into the file. Additionally for PowerShell, echoing $null into a file won’t actually make a 0kb file, but something encoded as UCS-2 LE BOM, which can get messy if you need to make sure your files don’t have a byte-order mark.

After testing all the answers here and referencing some similar ones, I can guarantee these will work per console shell. Just change FileName.FileExtension to the full or relative-path of the file you want to touch; thanks to Keith Russell for the COPY NUL FILE.EXT update:

CMD w/Timestamp Updates

copy NUL FileName.FileExtension

This will create a new file named whatever you placed instead of FileName.FileExtension with a size of 0 bytes. If the file already exists it will basically copy itself in-place to update the timestamp. I’d say this is more of a workaround than 1:1 functionality with touch but I don’t know of any built-in tools for CMD that can accomplish updating a file’s timestamp without changing any of its other content.

CMD w/out Timestamp Updates

if not exist FileName.FileExtension copy NUL FileName.FileExtension

Powershell w/Timestamp Updates

if (!(Test-Path FileName.FileExtension -PathType Leaf)) {New-Item FileName.FileExtension -Type file} else {(ls FileName.FileExtension ).LastWriteTime = Get-Date}

Yes, it will work in-console as a one-liner; no requirement to place it in a PowerShell script file.

PowerShell w/out Timestamp Updates

if (!(Test-Path FileName.FileExtension -PathType Leaf)) {New-Item FileName.FileExtension -Type file}

answered Nov 13, 2018 at 1:34

Use the following command on the your command line:

fsutil file createnew filename  requiredSize

The parameters info as followed:

fsutil — File system utility ( the executable you are running )

file — triggers a file action

createnew — the action to perform (create a new file)

filename — would be literally the name of the file

requiredSize — would allocate a file size in bytes in the created file

answered May 3, 2015 at 7:44

install npm on you machine

run the below command in you command prompt.

npm install touch-cli -g

now you will be able to use touch cmd.

answered Jan 26, 2021 at 3:59

You can replicate the functionality of touch with the following command:

$>>filename

What this does is attempts to execute a program called $, but if $ does not exist (or is not an executable that produces output) then no output is produced by it. It is essentially a hack on the functionality, however you will get the following error message:

‘$’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

If you don’t want the error message then you can do one of two things:

type nul >> filename

Or:

$>>filename 2>nul

The type command tries to display the contents of nul, which does nothing but returns an EOF (end of file) when read.

2>nul sends error-output (output 2) to nul (which ignores all input when written to). Obviously the second command (with 2>nul) is made redundant by the type command since it is quicker to type. But at least you now have the option and the knowledge.

answered Jul 1, 2017 at 9:40

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I use cmder (a command line emulator)

It allows you to run all Linux commands inside a Windows machine.

It can be downloaded from https://cmder.net/

I really like it

answered Dec 14, 2019 at 7:08

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Using PowerShell, type: ni index.html or ni style.css or ni app.js

ni <filename>.<extension>

answered Jul 20, 2022 at 21:08

If you have Cygwin installed in your PC, you can simply use the supplied executable for touch (also via windows command prompt):

C:\cygwin64\bin\touch.exe <file_path>

answered Jun 12, 2019 at 8:37

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Easy, example with txt file

echo $null >> filename.txt

answered Feb 22, 2018 at 20:20

Yes you can use Node for Touch I just use that and its working all fine in windows Cmd or gitbash

Use type instead of touch

type YOUR_FILE_NAME

However, it is limited to just a single file

answered Dec 21, 2022 at 13:21

Под unix-like операционными системами touch либо обновляет дату последнего изменения файла, либо создает новый пустой файл. Под виндой точно такой команды (из коробки) нет. Создайте этот файл из своего редактора/IDE/файлового менеджера (в проводнике можно создать guplfile.txt и переименовать в gulpfile.js).

Можно поставить git (все равно понадобится), с ним идет т.н. git bash, в котором есть все или почти все юниксовые утилиты.

Нет такой команды в винде. Скорее всего это какая нить сторонняя прога просто, которую из cmd юзать можно.