L A Walsh wrote:
So the touch command does the same as:
echo -n >>'stdout-file' ?
Not really.
What was the use-case that touch needed to have
the new feature?
It was mainly a desire to get back to the original Unix model, where basic
commands like 'touch' were thin wrappers around syst
Paul Eggert wrote:
L A Walsh wrote:
You run "touch -". Whatever file stdout happens to be associated
with, gets touched. It's the same idea as "cat -", except with stdout
rather than stdin.
The difference between that and updating due to write activity being
mostly that ctime is also writte
L A Walsh wrote:
You run "touch -". Whatever file stdout happens to be associated with, gets
touched. It's the same idea as "cat -", except with stdout rather than stdin.
The difference between that and updating due to write activity being
mostly that ctime is also written?
No, that's not a
On 08/04/2017 04:09 AM, pavan kumar yalavarthi wrote:
> Thanks,
[top-posting is harder to read on technical lists]
> Can I know why does it work in linux flavours like Red Hat Linux,Kali Linux
> but not ubuntu flavours???
Perhaps you should compare 'touch --version' on the systems with
differing
Thank you for the clarification.
On Aug 4, 2017 4:58 PM, "Eric Blake" wrote:
> On 08/04/2017 04:09 AM, pavan kumar yalavarthi wrote:
> > Thanks,
>
> [top-posting is harder to read on technical lists]
>
> > Can I know why does it work in linux flavours like Red Hat Linux,Kali
> Linux
> > but not
System
> Contact help-debb...@gnu.org with problems
>
>
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> From: Paul Eggert
> To: pavan kumar yalavarthi ,
> 27942-d...@debbugs.gnu.org
> Cc:
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> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 00:16:23 -0700
> Subject: Re: bug#27942: Bug regarding "touch&qu
Thanks,
Can I know why does it work in linux flavours like Red Hat Linux,Kali Linux
but not ubuntu flavours???
y.pavan kumar
On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> L A Walsh wrote:
>
>> "Touching the 'file' associated with stdout"?
>>
>
> Yes, that's it.
>
> How would I (or someon
Paul Eggert wrote:
L A Walsh wrote:
"Touching the 'file' associated with stdout"?
Yes, that's it.
How would I (or someone) use it?
You run "touch -". Whatever file stdout happens to be associated with,
gets touched. It's the same idea as "cat -", except with stdout rather
than stdin.
L A Walsh wrote:
"Touching the 'file' associated with stdout"?
Yes, that's it.
How would I (or someone) use it?
You run "touch -". Whatever file stdout happens to be associated with, gets
touched. It's the same idea as "cat -", except with stdout rather than stdin.
Paul Eggert wrote:
pavan kumar yalavarthi wrote:
" *touch -* " is not working i.e., file named " - " is not being
created
It's not a bug. In coreutils, 'touch -' is documented to touch the
standard output file, not a file named '-'. The POSIX specification
for 'touch' allows either the core
pavan kumar yalavarthi wrote:
" *touch -* " is not working i.e., file named " - " is not being created
using *touch *command in* ubuntu* flavours , but working fine with* linux *
flavours.
It's not a bug. In coreutils, 'touch -' is documented to touch the standard
output file, not a file nam
" *touch -* " is not working i.e., file named " - " is not being created
using *touch *command in* ubuntu* flavours , but working fine with* linux *
flavours.
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