Re: touch/open on Mac
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- Subject: [mg95951] Re: touch/open on Mac
- From: ragfield <ragfield at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:46:55 -0500 (EST)
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On Jan 29, 4:54 am, Frank Hu <frank1... at gmail.com> wrote: =7F> I used to be able to create a new notebook by these two commands > > touch foo.nb > open foo.nb > > But after upgrading to V7, foo.nb is treated as a text file and saving = > the file will just save the textural content of the notebook and lose > all the structures. Is there anyway to get the old behavior back, > namely let Mathematica treat an empty file with an nb suffix as an > empty notebook file? Try this instead: echo "Notebook[]" >> foo.nb open foo.nb -Rob