Use “touch” to create files in windows

Unix commands like touch will not work in windows system so, I created a node based command line tool called “touch” to create files using touch(create) command in the terminal of windows.

Here I created a npm package called @ritikchoure/touch which will allow us to use touch command.

npm i -g @ritikchoure/touch

this command will install the @ritikchoure/touch tool globally so we can use it in any folder.

To check the successful installation, run below command in terminal

touch

and check whether your result is looks like below image -

successfully installation

If you will get some error, go to below section.

You can check version using below command -

touch -v

or

touch --version

Now we can create file using below command -

touch <filename>.<extension>

Note: if you get below error,

touch : File C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\npm\touch.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this
system.

error occurs

so just go to -

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\npm

And find touch.ps1 file and delete it.

find and delete this file

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