'touch' is not recognized as an internal o

Question

I work with laravel 5 , when i type in windows cmd this command "touch storage\database.sqlite" this error message rise 'touch' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. any hint to solve it ?

Answer 1

Just run it through the GitBash terminal on windows and it works fine

Answer 2

ex: type nul >test.html in windows CMD & another one ways is

echo.>test.html

both are working 100% fine

Answer 3

if you are using node.js just use npm to install it on Windows:

C:\npm install touch-cli -g

it will install the command line interface for touch, you can then use it the same as unix...