On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 23:24:44 +0000, Gibney, Dave wrote: >I always understood that Unix touch was primarily used to for non-distructive >assurance that the file existed. No changes to an existing file and >automatically creating a file when it was not already there. > "touch" creates a file but updates the modified time of an existing file.
"touch -c " updates the modified time of an existing file but does not create a file. To create a file but not update the modified time of an existing file I use ": >>fi;ename". -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
