Subject: Re: bug#27942: Bug regarding "touch" command

From: pavan kumar yalavarthi <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 14:39:48 +0530

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 <[email-masked]> 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.
>