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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#27942: Bug regarding "touch" command |
| Date: | Fri, 4 Aug 2017 00:16:23 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 |
pavan kumar yalavarthi wrote:
" *touch -* " is not working i.e., file named " - " is not being created using *touch *command in* ubuntu* flavours , but working fine with* linux * flavours.
It's not a bug. In coreutils, 'touch -' is documented to touch the standard output file, not a file named '-'. The POSIX specification for 'touch' allows either the coreutils behavior or the other behavior that you mentioned. If you want to touch a file named '-', the command 'touch ./-' is a portable way to do it.
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