* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:53:01PM CEST: > > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 9/13/2008 1:27 AM: > >>> # for i in 1 2 3 ; do : >x$i ; sleep 60 ; done ; date ; ls -l x*
> What about suggesting "touch" instead? Can we assume its presence? Yes, but it has the documented issues; albeit, all of those are pretty much not a problem any more. (There are embedded systems where utime is not implemented, thus touch -r/-t does not work; but that is not relevant here.) Cheers, Ralf
