File Creation in Terminal?

I'm pretty new to Linux and was trying to learn a few commands. I came across a few commands that can create files which are touch, cat, and echo. None of which are involved in just creating a file. I was wondering why there isn't a command like mkfile or something similar.

 

touch is mkfile isn't it?

 

Code:

$ alias mkfile='touch'
$ LANG=C type -a mkfile
mkfile is aliased to `touch'

 

Yeah, you're right. I was just wondering why, since the "main" functionality of the touch command was to update the modification and access dates.

Oh that's really cool, I didn't know you could create your own aliases. This is really useful, thank you.