The touch command is a standard command used in UNIX/Linux operating system which is used to create, change and modify timestamps of a file. Basically, there are two different commands to create a file in the Linux system which is as follows:

cat command: It is used to create the file with content.

touch command: It is used to create a file without any content. The file created using touch command is empty. This command can be used when the user doesn’t have data to store at the time of file creation.

touch command: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/touch-command-in-linux-with-examples/