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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because now touch does two things.

Without touch, we could "just" use the shell to create files.

: > foo.txt

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Touch does one thing from a “contract” perspective:

Ensure the timestamp of is

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Systemd also does one thing from a contract perspective: run your system

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Oh no.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Does it do it well, though?