touch command

The touch command is used to create a file.

touch file.md

Unlike the mkdir command, there isn’t an equivalent of the -p flag to create the intermediate directories if they don’t exist. In order to do this, we need to combine both the commands

touch dir1/dir2/file.md

If dir1 and dir2 don’t exist, the shell will return an error touch: dir1/dir2/file.md: No such file or directory

mkdir -p dir1/dir2 && touch dir1/dir2/file.md

We can combine mkdir and touch to achieve the result