This being Unix, there are a million ways to do things. Just for the
sake of curiosity, here are 0.0004% more of the possibilities. I only
bring this up because I know several of my coworkers don't know about
these tricks, so I imagine some others out there might not either.
On 4/18/2014 4:17 AM, Stephan Beal wrote:
echo '' > .fossil-settings/ignore-glob
(Unless you're in DOS or the Windows shell) echo with zero arguments
just prints a newline. So you can skip the quotes.
$ echo > .fossil-settings/ignore-glob
In bash (not csh), you can skip the echo too:
$ > .fossil-settings/ignore-glob
This will trigger file creation which is a side effect of redirection,
but since there's no command, there's nothing to write.
csh explicitly forbids an empty command pipeline, so use the ":"
quasi-command which is a no-op ("does nothing, successfully"):
% : > .fossil-settings/ignore-glob
Or if the file doesn't already exist, touch will create it in the
process of updating its timestamp:
$ touch .fossil-settings/ignore-glob
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Andy Goth | <andrew.m.goth/at/gmail/dot/com>
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