parag dave wrote:
> I am not reporting a bug. Only pointing out possible improvements.
> touch is a very useful command for me. I have issue with its handling of
> symbolic links.
> When you touch the symbolic links the original file gets touche, no the
> symbolic link file. I hope you shall be able ro provide me appropriate
> guidelines on how to achieve this. Parag Dave Lecturer Computer DDIT,
> Nadiad, Gujart India
Thanks for the suggestion, but there is already an option to do that:
$ touch --help|grep -A2 no-der
-h, --no-dereference affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced
file (useful only on systems that can change the
timestamps of a symlink)