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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#27942: Bug regarding "touch" command |
| Date: | Fri, 4 Aug 2017 22:28:56 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 |
L A Walsh wrote:
So the touch command does the same as: echo -n >>'stdout-file' ?
Not really.
What was the use-case that touch needed to have the new feature?
It was mainly a desire to get back to the original Unix model, where basic commands like 'touch' were thin wrappers around system calls.
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