N = 5


rule touch_files:
    params:
        n=N,
    output:
        expand("output/file_{i}.txt", i=range(N)),
    script:
        "scripts/touch_files.py"

# scripts/touch_files.py
from pathlib import Path

# Get parameters from Snakemake
n = snakemake.params.n
output_files = snakemake.output

# Create output directory if it doesn't exist
Path("output").mkdir(exist_ok=True)

# Touch each output file
for file_path in output_files:
    Path(file_path).touch()

print(f"Created {n} test files test")

Building DAG of jobs...
Job stats:
job            count
-----------  -------
touch_files        1
total              1


[Mon Mar 17 16:10:06 2025]
rule touch_files:
    output: output/file_0.txt, output/file_1.txt, output/file_2.txt, output/file_3.txt, output/file_4.txt
    jobid: 0
    reason: Code has changed since last execution
    resources: tmpdir=<TBD>

Job stats:
job            count
-----------  -------
touch_files        1
total              1

Reasons:
    (check individual jobs above for details)
    code has changed since last execution:
        touch_files
Some jobs were triggered by provenance information, see 'reason' section in the rule displays above.
If you prefer that only modification time is used to determine whether a job shall be executed, use the command line option '--rerun-triggers mtime' (also see --help).
If you are sure that a change for a certain output file (say, <outfile>) won't change the result (e.g. because you just changed the formatting of a script or environment definition), you can also wipe its metadata to skip such a trigger via 'snakemake --cleanup-metadata <outfile>'. 
Rules with provenance triggered jobs: touch_files