Windows equivalent of 'touch' (i.e. the node.js way to create an index.html)

Question

On a windows machine I get this error

\'touch\' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Answer 1

Windows does not natively include a touch command.

You can use any of the available public versions or you can use your own version. Save this code as touch.cmd and place it somewhere in your path

@echo off
    setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion

    (for %%a in (%*) do if exist "%%~a" (
        pushd "%%~dpa" && ( copy /b "%%~nxa"+,, & popd )
    ) else (
        type nul > "%%~fa"
    )) >nul 2>&1

It will iterate over it argument list, and for each element if it exists, update the file timestamp, else, create it.