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Old 06-14-2008
simultaneously create three empty files?
I can't get touch to simultaneously create three empty files file1, file2, file3. I tried:
Code:
$ touch file[1-3]

but all I got was one file:
Code:
$ file[1-3]

What did I do wrong?
# 2  
Old 06-14-2008
With file[1-3], the current directory is searched and if filenames matching the pattern exist, the pattern is replaced with the list. Otherwise, the pattern is left alone.

If you:
touch file1 file2 file3 file4 file5
first, you command would update the timestamp on the first three.

What would you expect:
touch *
to do? Create all possible file names???? Smilie
# 3  
Old 06-14-2008
Quote:
What would you expect:
touch *
to do? Create all possible file names???? Smilie
Now that would eat up some serious disk space Smilie

So there's no tricky way to use touch to create multiple files simultaneously in one brief command?
# 4  
Old 06-14-2008
Use a loop,

Code:
i=1
while [ $i -le 5 ]; do touch file$i; i=`expr $i + 1`; done

# 5  
Old 06-14-2008
Hi.

Some shells may help:

Code:
#!/bin/bash3 -

# @(#) s1       Demonstrate brace expansion.

echo
echo "(Versions displayed with local utility \"version\")"
version >/dev/null 2>&1 && version =o $(_eat $0 $1)
echo

rm -f scratch*
echo " Situation before:"
ls scratch*

touch scratch{1..3}

echo
echo " Situation after :"
ls scratch*

exit 0

Producing:
Code:
% ./s1

(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
Linux 2.6.11-x1
GNU bash 3.00.16(1)-release

 Situation before:
ls: scratch*: No such file or directory

 Situation after :
scratch1  scratch2  scratch3

See man page for details -- also worked on ksh 93s+ ... cheers, drl
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