Step 1, Go to the Python file's location. Find the Python file that you want to open in Command Prompt. If you already know the folder path to the Python file you want to open, skip ahead to opening the file in Command Prompt.Step 2, Select the Python file. Click once the Python file for which you want to see the folder path.Step 3, Right-click the Python file. Doing so prompts a drop-down menu to appear. How can I make a read-only Windows file read+write for Everyone from the command line. I searched CACLS but the examples aren't great.
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How to create an empty file at the DOS/Windows command-line?
I tried:
but it always displays that a file was copied.
Is there any other method in the standard cmd?
It should be a method that does not require the touch command from Cygwin or any other nonstandard commands.The command needs to run from a script so keystrokes cannot be used.
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Without redirection, Luc Vu or Erik Konstantopoulospointout to:
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'How to create empty text file from a batch file?' (2008) also points to:
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Nomad mentions an original one:
In the same spirit, Samuel suggests in the comments:
the shortest one I use is basically the one by Nomad:
It does give an error:
But this error is on stderr. And
> only redirects stdout, where nothing have been produced.Hence the creation of an empty file. The error message can be disregarded here.
(Original answer, November 2009)
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echo ' would actually put ' in the file! And echo without the '.' would put 'Command ECHO activated ' in the file..)
Note: the resulting file is not empty but includes a return line sequence: 2 bytes.
This discussion points to a true batch solution for a real empty file:
The '
<nul ' pipes a nul response to the set/p command, which will cause the variable used to remain unchanged. As usual with set/p , the string to the right of the equal sign is displayed as a prompt with no CRLF.
Since here the 'string to the right of the equal sign' is empty.. the result is an empty file.
The difference with
cd. > filename (which is mentioned in Patrick Cuff's answer and does also produce a 0-byte-length file) is that this 'bit of redirection' (the <nul.. trick) can be used to echo lines without any CR:
The dir command should indicate the file size as 12 bytes: ' VonCVonC
hello world! '.
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Try this:
this will definitely create an empty file.
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If you really want a totally empty file, without any output to stdout, you can cheat a little:
Just redirect stdout to nul, and the output from copy disappears.
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Open file :
New file :
Edit content:
Copy
Rename
Delete file :
Reading comments on my post, I have to admit I didn't read the question right.
On the Windows command-line, one way would be to use fsutil:
An example:
Below is for *nix command-line.
This command changes your modified date of a file or creates it if file is not found.
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I believe this works on Windows/DOS, but my last hands-on experience with either is quite a while ago. I do know for a fact that it works on basically any POSIX compliant OS.
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worked when creating a file in C:/Program Files where you don't have the access to create files directly.
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Try this :
abc > myFile.txt First, it will create a file with name myFile.txt in present working directory (in command prompt). Then it will run the command abc which is not a valid command. In this way, you have gotten a new empty file with the name myFile.txt .
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Use 0x6773
copy > your_file_name.extension in command promptlike
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You could also use:
The debug output for Tim Cooper
echo. will almost definitely be empty.
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type nul>filename will create a new empty file.
Sorry I'm late.
UPDATE: Also EKonsEKons
copy nul filename works without redirecting (more obvious solution).
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so you can create an empty file with
navigate to the directory and type the above command in PowerShell window.
Note this will not work on windows command prompt.
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You can use the old command
don't type anything, just press F6 to save it, however it will print 'File copied', but when you open the file, it will be empty
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This worked for me,
Here's another way I found today, got ideas from other answers but it worked
Eg.
This would show an error message in the command prompt that ,
xyz is not as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
But the weird thing I found was the file is being created in the directory even if the command is not a standard windows command.
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I read many threads but it is not the shortest way.
Please use command:
Windows Command Line Make File>copy /b NUL empty_file.txt
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On WindowsI tried doing this
and it created a file named fff1.txt with file size of 0kb
I didn't find any commands other than this that could create a empty file.
Note: You have to be in the directory you wish to create the file.
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For creating any type of file you can use the following code
type nul > (file_name).(file_type)
Eg. If you want to create a text file then
type nul > demo.txt
If you want to create a javascript file then
type nul > demo.js
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Just I have tried in windows
then Press Enter Key then Press Ctrl+ZEnter
And its worked for me.
For Ubuntu usually I am creating a file using VI command
It will open the file then press ESC key then type :wp then press enter key. It will create a new file with empty data.
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check this article for more information.
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Today I've discovered a new one :)
This will change the command line window title, but will also create a empty file.
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Run CMD in admistrator mode and type this:
or you type this
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Here is yet another way:
The slash aschipflaschipfl
/ is mandatory; without it the redirection part was commented out by rem .
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First create your file so that it exists:
Then overwrite the created file with an empty version using the nhahtdh
copy command:
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Do you know how to use the Command Prompt? If you do, you can write a batch file. In its simplest form, a batch file (or batch script) is a list of several commands that are executed when you double-click the file. Batch files go all the way back to DOS, but still work on modern versions of Windows.
PowerShell scripts and Bash scripts may be more powerful, but batch files can still be plenty useful if you need to run basic Windows commands.
Batch File Basics
A batch file is simply a text file saved with the .bat file extension. You can write one using Notepad or a more advanced text editor like Notepad++, but don’t use a word processor like Microsoft Word.
Let’s create a simple batch file. First, open Notepad. Type the following lines into it:
Next, save the file by clicking File > Save. Give it any name you like, but replace the default .txt file extension with the .bat extension.
For example, you might want to name it
hello_world.bat .
You now have a batch file with the .bat file extension. Double-click it to run it. This particular batch file sets ECHO off (which cleans up the output by hiding the commands from being printed at the prompt, prints the text “Hello World” to the screen, and then waits for you to press a key before it ends.
If you didn’t add
PAUSE to the file, the batch file would simply run its commands and then automatically close. In this case, it would print “Hello World” to the window and then immediately close the Command Prompt window. When you want to quickly run commands without seeing the output, you can omit this. If you’re running several commands, you could place the PAUSE command in between them.
Writing a More Complex Batch File
It’s fundamentally simple to create a batch file. The only thing you need to change is what you type into Notepad. To run several commands, you type each one on its own line and the batch file will run each one in order.
For example, let’s say we want to write a batch file that runs several network diagnostic commands. We might want to run
ipconfig /all to view network information, ping google.com to see if Google’s servers are responding, and tracert google.com to run a traceroute to google.com and see if there are any problems on the way.
In the most basic form, we could simply place all those commands in a batch file, one after the other, like so:
When we run this file, we’d just see the output of each command right after the other. But this isn’t necessarily the ideal way to write a batch file.
For example, you might want to add comment lines. Any line that begins with a
:: is a comment line and won’t be executed. That makes them a useful way to explain what’s happening in the file for anyone you might give it to–or for your future self, who might forget why you put a certain command in there.
You might also want to add the “ECHO OFF” command to the beginning of the file. This is typically added to the start of most batch files. When you do this, the commands themselves won’t be printed to the Command Prompt, but the results will be. For example, you’ll see the network connection details but not the “ipconfig /all” line. Most people don’t care to see the commands, so this can clean up the output.
So here’s what that might look like:
There are other directions you could go with a batch file like this. For example, you might want to have your batch script run the above commands and then dump the output to a text file you can view later. To do so, you’d use the
>> operator after each command to append its output to the text file. As we’re going to read the output from the text file anyway, we can omit the PAUSE command.
After you run the above script, you’d find a file named results.txt in the same folder as the batch file with the output of the commands. The Command Prompt window will automatically close once the batch file is done running.
The example we’re using above relies on actually printing information to the Command Prompt so the user can read it. However, many batch files are designed to be run non-interactively. For example, you could have a batch file that deletes multiple files or directories whenever you double-click it. You’d just need to use the
del command to delete files or the deltree command to delete directories. Remember, you’re just using the same commands you’d run in a Command Prompt window.
Fundamentally, that’s the point of most batch files–just running a few commands one after another. However, batch files can actually be significantly more complex than this. For example, you can use “IF” statements along with the “GOTO” command to check the value of something and then skip to different lines depending on the result. This is more like writing an actual small program than a quick and dirty script. That’s one reason why .bat files are sometimes called “batch programs.” If you want to do something more complex, you’ll find plenty of guides to doing specific things with batch programming online. But now, you know the basics of how to throw a simple one together.
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