The following is a tutorial on how to create a empty file on the filesystem:
// Destination directory
File destinationDir = new File(“/some/path”);
// The ‘touched’ file
File doneFile = new File(destinationDir, “some_file_name”);
// The JVM will only ‘touch’ the file if you instantiate a
// FileOutputStream instance for the file in question.
// You don’t actually write any data to the file through
// the FileOutputStream. Just instantiate it and close it.
FileOutputStream doneFOS = null;
try {
doneFOS = new FileOutputStream(doneFile);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// Handle error
}
try {
doneFOS.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// Handle error
}