An easy way to replace the touch command on a windows command line like cmd would be:

type nul > your_file.txt

This will create 0 bytes in the your_file.txt file.

This would also be a good solution to use in windows batch files.

Another way of doing it is by using the echo command:

echo.> your_file.txt

echo. - will create a file with one empty line in it.

If you need to preserve the content of the file use >> instead of >

>   Creates a new file
>>  Preserves content of the file

Example

type nul >> your_file.txt

You can also use call command.

Calls one batch program from another without stopping the parent batch program. The call command accepts labels as the target of the call.

Example:

call >> your_file.txt

--- or even if you don't want make it hard you can Just install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Then, type.

wsl touch

or

wsl touch textfilenametoedit.txt

Quotes are not needed.

in linux, touch command is typically used to create an empty file, not a directory! but in Windows Command Prompt(CMD) you can do like this to make a folder :

mkdir your_folder_name

or you can do it in Windows PowerShell like this

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Name your_folder_name

but if you want to create a new file with for example .txt extension, you can use the echo command like this in CMD:

echo. > my_empty_file.txt

or in PowerShell like this:

"" > my_empty_file.txt

good luck !

As you've likely discovered, touching a nonexistent file will create a zero-byte file with the name you specify. (touch is also used to update the modification time on an existing file. See man touch for further details.)

The problem you're running into is that though a completely empty file is valid HTML, text, or Markdown, it is not valid RTF—this is true of many file formats, actually, which are structured in a particular way and require some data to be present be valid.

Based on my experimentation, the bare minimum RTF file appears to be

{\rtf1}

If you'd like to create a blank RTF file from the shell, try this:

echo '{\rtf1}' >Foo.rtf 

Note the above will overwrite Foo.rtf if it exists.