[pm-h] write to empty files

[Chris Blanc]

I did something similar when I wrote an experimental hypertext book.
It turned out that using Perl to parse a source text file with simple
markup was the solution. Would something like that work for you?



On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 12:11 PM,  <rlharris at oplink.net> wrote:
> On Fri, June 8, 2018 7:54 am, Chris Blanc wrote:
>> I would write-append these lines to the file with the >> operator.
>>
>>
>> I would use this for the pathname:
>> http://perldoc.perl.org/File/Basename.html
>>
>>
>> This might help with the timestamp:
>> https://www.perl.com/pub/2003/03/13/datetime.html/
>
> "touch" changes the timestamp of a file, but also creates non-existent
> files, and a file created by touch has zero length.
>
> I have been using touch in a bash script to create groups of files simply
> because it is an easy approach, and it has been years since I last did a
> cover-to-cover read of Learning Perl.  But then the contents of each file
> must be created manually by copy-and-paste.
>
> I would prefer to use Perl to create the files with the desired headers.
> Once I know how to do that, I can make use of Perl to add additional
> file-specific material to each file, and save much time in manual editing.
>
> RLH
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