GNU bug report logs - #27942
Bug regarding "touch" command

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: pavan kumar yalavarthi <yalavarthi.pavankumar.123 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 06:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
Cc: 27942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, yalavarthi.pavankumar.123 <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#27942: Bug regarding "touch" command
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 22:28:56 -0700

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 system calls.
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