How to create a file from a Command line in Windows 10 ?

There are two command that you can use to create a file from a command line in Windows 10. These include
– echo
– fsutil

How to create a file from a Command line in Windows 10 ?

The fsutil command can be used to create a file  by specifying the size but if you need to write a data to the file during its creation , you can use the echo command.

Syntax of fsutil command

fsutil file createnew <Name_Of_the_File> <No_Of_Bytes>

Syntax of echo command

echo file_content  > name_of_the_file.txt

Example

D:\abundantcode2>echo "welcome to abundantcode.com" > abundantcode.txt

D:\abundantcode2>dir
 Volume in drive D is New Volume
 Volume Serial Number is 1E5B-86FF

 Directory of D:\abundantcode2

07/28/2016  02:22 PM    <DIR>          .
07/28/2016  02:22 PM    <DIR>          ..
07/28/2016  02:22 PM                32 abundantcode.txt
               1 File(s)             32 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  327,704,076,288 bytes free

D:\abundantcode2>
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