The Empty Project (Origins)

I've always had a special place in my heart for Linux! I'm a Windows developer, who works on MacOS and Linux quite frequently and I start to miss all the tools and commands of the other operating systems. One command in particular I find useful is the linux touch command. The touch command does a few things, like changes a file's properties such as access time and modification time, but the most feature for me is creating empty files. I wouldn't mind building a simple CLI application to do much the same functions as Linux's tounch command, but on Windows.

Simple right?

Well, here is the challenge (for me, anyway) - I'm want to code it using Rust langauge. and btw, I don't know how to code in Rust...yet. Sounds fun right? You are welcome to join in the fun!

About

This is a Rust command-line application that allows the user to create one or more empty files. The application takes in command line arguments and creates a file for each argument. If the -b flag is specified, the application will create "bare-bones" files that are empty except for a minimal header.

Usage

To use the application, simply run it with one or more arguments:

./main.exe file1.txt file2.txt

This will create two empty files named file1.txt and file2.txt in the current directory.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Compiling and Running

Windows

1. Install Rust for Windows by downloading and running the installer from the official Rust website.
2. Open a command prompt and navigate to the directory where your main.rs file is located.
3. Run the command cargo build --release to compile the program.
4. Run the command ./target/release/main.exe to execute the compiled program.

Linux

Install Rust for Linux by running the following command in your terminal:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh.

1. Open a terminal and navigate to the directory where your main.rs file is located.
2. Run the command cargo build --release to compile the program.
3. Run the command ./target/release/main to execute the compiled program.

MacOS

1. Install Rust for macOS by downloading and running the installer from the official Rust website.
2. Open a terminal and navigate to the directory where your main.rs file is located.
3. Run the command cargo build --release to compile the program.
4. Run the command ./target/release/main to execute the compiled program.

Note that the compiled binary will be located in the target/release directory after you run cargo build --release.