Creating a file in csh

[Daniel Faigin]

In article <1581 at ukma.UUCP> david at ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) writes:
>
>	echo -q This creates an empty file >new.file
>
>Since, with csh, there is no longer an easy way to create an empty
>file.  (With sh one could type just ">new.file").
>

Actually, the easiest way to create an empty file in csh is:
	cat < /dev/null > newfile

Daniel
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