"What is the meaning of cd. > for creating empty file in windows CMD?" In my view point CD means change directory but why i have to put .> for creating empty file in windows CMD?
C:\Users\smith\Desktop\web>cd. >index.html
> redirects output from the preceding operation to a file handle. Unfortunately, there's no straighforward way to output an empty string with echo in cmd, so if you use:
echo. > newfile.txt
for example, you end up with newfile.txt containing a trailing new-line.
cd. "changes" the location to, well, the current location (so effectively does nothing) and then it outputs... well, nothing! The effect being that:
cd. > newfile.txt
results in an empty text file