Recipe: Generating blank files in bulk

Creating blank files
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$ touch filename
# A blank file with name filename will be created

#generate blank files with different name patterns

$ for name in {1..10}.txt
> do
> touch $name;
> done

$ ls | head
10.txt
1.txt
2.txt
3.txt
4.txt
5.txt
6.txt
7.txt
8.txt
9.txt


Setting the timestamp
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$ touch -d "Fri Jun 25 20:50:14 IST 1999" filename