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If file not exist create a new one
i want a script to check whether the file name exits or not if not it has to create a new one
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What did you try so far..??
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test -e fff.txt || touch fff.txt

It will create an empty file fff.txt if it doesn't exist.

Other thing when you use cat > <file> It also create the file if is not present and if it present it over writes the contents.
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This sounds like homework.

I would also like to know what you tried so far.

For what it's worth, the answer is in siba.s.nayak's post, although it is a lot less complicated than what siba indicated.
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