How to create file with 0 bytes (length) ?
Dennis Halver
Dennis
Pegasus
"Dennis Halver" <ha...@persrec.com> wrote in message
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> How can I create a file with 0 byte length?
>
> Dennis
Like this:
cd 2>Zero.txt
Todd Vargo
> How can I create a file with 0 byte length?
The answer to this can be found in Prof. Timo Salmi's "Batch file
information and FAQs" which was posted just yesterday.
type nul>zerobyte.txt
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Stubbo of Oz
>How can I create a file with 0 byte length?
>
Open Notepad (or other text editor).
Don't enter anything then save it as an empty file
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Ted Davis
> How can I create a file with 0 byte length?
There are several ways - OS specific ways, but
type nul > file
seems to work in all of them.
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Tim Meddick
echo. > TEST.TXT
...at the 'Command Prompt' (any dos version)
Then type :
edit.com /79 TEST.TXT
and delete the space and the two odd characters.
Save the file and exit EDIT.COM
Alternatively, use any other binary text editor do delete the CR+LF
end-of-line (return) characters to make the file 0 [zero] bytes.
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
"Dennis Halver" <ha...@persrec.com> wrote in message
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01MDM
> How can I create a file with 0 byte length?
>
> Dennis
cd.>Zero.txt
Batchman
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:41:09 +0000, Dennis Halver wrote:
> How can I create a file with 0 byte length?
>
> Dennis
One technique is to use REM > Zero.Bat, another is ECHO.> Zero.Bat.
You may find that some methods work with some command prompts (Dos) and
not with others.
Batcher
Pegasus
"Batchman" <batc...@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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Among the many replies in this thread, this one stands out because neither
of the two suggested methods will generate a zero-byte file.
charles
>How can I create a file with 0 byte length?
>
>Dennis
type NUL >mtfile.txt
01MDM
> On 06 Jul 2009 21:41:09 GMT, h...@persrec.com (Dennis Halver) wrote:
>
> >How can I create a file with 0 byte length?
>
> >Dennis
>
> type NUL >mtfile.txt
Hm, my version is the shortest: cd.>file - only 4 characters
foxidrive
wrote:
.>file.txt
Only 1 character. :)
foxidrive
>On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:41:09 +0000, Dennis Halver wrote:
>
>> How can I create a file with 0 byte length?
>
>There are several ways - OS specific ways, but
>
> type nul > file
>
>seems to work in all of them.
This does too - tested in XP and MSDOS V6.22 at least.
rem.>file
01MDM
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 06:30:32 -0700 (PDT), 01MDM <001.dmi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On 7 ???, 17:12, charles <some...@somewhere.invalid> wrote:
> >> On 06 Jul 2009 21:41:09 GMT, h...@persrec.com (Dennis Halver) wrote:
>
> >> >How can I create a file with 0 byte length?
>
> >> >Dennis
>
> >> type NUL >mtfile.txt
>
> >Hm, my version is the shortest: cd.>file - only 4 characters
>
> .>file.txt
>
> Only 1 character. :)
Only 1 character. :)
Only _2_ characters, and error in host :( Not a nice way :)
foxidrive
wrote:
>On 8 ???, 08:18, foxidrive <got...@woohoo.invalid> wrote:
>> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 06:30:32 -0700 (PDT), 01MDM <001.dmi...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On 7 ???, 17:12, charles <some...@somewhere.invalid> wrote:
>> >> On 06 Jul 2009 21:41:09 GMT, h...@persrec.com (Dennis Halver) wrote:
>>
>> >> >How can I create a file with 0 byte length?
>>
>> >> >Dennis
>>
>> >> type NUL >mtfile.txt
>>
>> >Hm, my version is the shortest: cd.>file - only 4 characters
>>
>> �.>file.txt
>>
>> Only 1 character. �:)
>
>
>Only _2_ characters,
No, only 1 character. The others have to be there. :)
>and error in host :( Not a nice way :)
That wasn't part of the discussion. *grins*
01MDM
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 22:33:07 -0700 (PDT), 01MDM <001.dmi...@gmail.com>
:)
Dr J R Stockton
r-online.net>, Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:41:09, Dennis Halver
<ha...@persrec.com> posted:
>How can I create a file with 0 byte length?
I use
copy /y nul TRY.LOG > nul
in XP (sp3) CMD.EXE prompt; it AFAIR works at least in all earlier
systems; it also updates an existing TRY.LOG.
I use the sero-length file as an economical way of recording when
TRY,BAT was last run, surviving over re-boot; that is used in TRY.BAT so
that, in it, HUNT selects all *.htm files created or changed since
TRY.BAT was previously run.
A copy of TRY.BAT is in the Web directory below.
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"T Lavedas" <tglb...@cox.net> wrote in message
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>
> It appears the OP multi-posted and this same topic is covered in
> great
> detail over in alt.msdos.batch.nt,
>
Actually, he (yet again) crossposted and silently set followups to
AMBNT, and somewhere along the line the followup group got broken /
ignoted so that (yet again) the conversation got fragmented among the
various groups.
OP, if you are out there and reading this message, please do us the
courtesy of allowing the multipost to do what it was intended to do,
or at the very least indicate in the original post that you've set
followups to a specific group.
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