On 2021/03/08 19:58, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 3/8/21 6:29 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
Warning, '-f' assuming '-r' was intended
I don't think that'd be helpful, given that -f now has a well-defined
and common meaning that doesn't agree with what you remember, and that
in 4.2BSD (circa 1983) -f meant something quite different from -r and
the common current interpretation of -f (which is to ignore it) is
extremely compatible with 4.2BSD's interpretation. See:
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.2BSD/usr/man/man1/touch.1
Indeed! I wondered about a '-f' ala force...well given that, sigh.
I'm probably thinking of a -f meaning some file to use from some other
util...
Thanks for the update and appreciate your diligence...
