Overview

os.Create() can be used to create an empty file in go. The signature of the function is

func Create(name string) (*File, error) 

Basically this function

• Create a named file with mode 0666
• It truncates the file if it already exits
• In case of path issue, it returns a Path error
• It returns a file descriptor which can be used for both reading and write

Code:

package main

import (
    "log"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    file, err := os.Create("emptyFile.txt")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    defer file.Close()
}

Output:

Check the contents of the file. It will be empty