GNU bug report logs - #7122
touch (GNU coreutils) 7.4 - no way to touch a symlink

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Peter Bailey <baileyp <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:33:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Peter Bailey <baileyp <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: touch (GNU coreutils) 7.4 - no way to touch a symlink
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:51:23 -0700

There are reports that the BSD version of touch has a -h option which
will make it update the timestamp of a symlink rather than the target
of that symlink.  As it is, there's no way to update the timestamp on
a symlink itself.
This bug report was last modified 14 years and 299 days ago.

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