in reply to Thread safe equivalent of LINUX touch command

How about opening the file for appending, then immediately closing it? 
open my $fh, '>>', 'file.txt' or die "Ouch: $!";
close $fh;

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Not tested (I'm on Windows and think this might be system-dependent).


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