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Small bug in touch

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Rickard Norlander <rickardnorlander <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Rickard Norlander <rickardnorlander <at> gmail.com>,  21065 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21065: Small bug in touch
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:20:36 +0100

On 15/07/15 14:25, Rickard Norlander wrote:
> touch version 8.23
> 
> Command:
> $ touch -- '-'
> Happens:
> Returns successfully, but no file is created (if file exists, timestamp is not updated)

That is inconsistent with other platforms, though is documented
at the top of the man page, and done on purpose since v5.90 with:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=e3513e1
This bug report was last modified 10 years and 6 days ago.

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