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No one has recommended the append mode of open. Here is the perl one-liner: 

perl -e 'for (@ARGV){open FILE, ">>$_";print FILE "\n";close FILE;} ' 
+<filenames>

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Re: Re: very basic, just beginning
by jmanning2k (Pilgrim) on Aug 27, 2003 at 18:08 UTC
    Your code doesn't do what is asked. That one liner will append a newline to the end of the file.
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