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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#27942: Bug regarding "touch" command |
Date: | Fri, 4 Aug 2017 02:01:42 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 |
L A Walsh wrote:
"Touching the 'file' associated with stdout"?
Yes, that's it.
How would I (or someone) use it?
You run "touch -". Whatever file stdout happens to be associated with, gets touched. It's the same idea as "cat -", except with stdout rather than stdin.
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