How to Create an Empty File in Golang?

Like other programming languages, Go language also allows you to create files. For creating a file it provides Create() function, this function is used to create or truncates the given named file.

• This method will truncate the file, if the given file is already exists.
• This method will create a file with mode 0666, if the given file doesn’t exist.
• If the given path is not correct, then this method will throw an error of type *PathError.
• This method return a file descriptor which can be used for both reading and write.
• It is defined under the os package so, you have to import os package in your program for accessing Create() function.

Syntax:

func Create(file_name string) (*File, error)

Example 1:

// Golang program to illustrate how to create
// an empty file in the default directory
package main

import (
    "log"
    "os"
)

func main() {

    // Creating an empty file
    // Using Create() function
    myfile, e := os.Create("GeeksforGeeks.txt")
    if e != nil {
        log.Fatal(e)
    }
    log.Println(myfile)
    myfile.Close()
}

Output:

Example 2:

// Golang program to illustrate how to create
// an empty file in the new directory
package main

import (
    "log"
    "os"
)

func main() {

    // Creating an empty file
    // Using Create() function
    myfile, e := os.Create("/Users/anki/Documents/new_folder/GeeksforGeeks.txt")
    if e != nil {
        log.Fatal(e)
    }
    log.Println(myfile)
    myfile.Close()
}

Output: