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Bug regarding "touch" command

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From: pavan kumar yalavarthi <yalavarthi.pavankumar.123 <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 27942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, coreutils <at> tlinx.org
Subject: bug#27942: Bug regarding "touch" command
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 14:39:48 +0530

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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 <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> 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.
>

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