chraebsli to Programmer Humor · 8 months agoTouch a file in Linuximagemessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up11.2Karrow-down131
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minus-squareTrailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·8 months agoNot really. I believe : is the “true” builtin. So it’s like running a program that exits with zero and writes nothing to stdout. The >> streams the empty stdout into the named file.
Not really. I believe : is the “true” builtin. So it’s like running a program that exits with zero and writes nothing to stdout. The >> streams the empty stdout into the named file.