On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Michael Halcrow wrote:
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:20:25AM -0600, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
Does anyone know the history behind the touch command? Why "touch"?
It was simply written as part of a complementary set of UNIX
utilities, including finger, unzip, strip, uptime, gawk, head, mount,
fsck, gasp, more, yes, umount, and sleep. No dark and twisted
conspiracies to worry about.
Can't....resist....
Shouldn't it go more like: gawk, unzip, strip, finger, gasp, uptime,
head, mount, fsck, more, yes, umount and sleep?
;)
-Blake
P.S. For those that don't get it, ignore it, you're pure.
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