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What is the output of the following command in an empty directory touch -c Filethtdoesntexist.txt

  1. No output

  2. Error saying "no such file exists"

  3. File created with the specified name

  4. None of these
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Explanation

touch with -c (--no-create) flag does NOT create the file if it doesn't exist. It produces no output and returns success (exit 0). The file is not created.

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