"Donald J. Axel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Should
> there be an option for touching the link and leaving the
> original file?

Most likely yes, however, I don't know of any way to implement such an
option in portable Posix code, on GNU/Linux, or on Solaris.  FreeBSD
can do it, though: its touch has a "-h" option that does what you
want, and GNU touch could be modified to support -h on BSDish systems.


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