chraebsli to Programmer Humor · 8 months agoTouch a file in Linuximagemessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up11.2Karrow-down131
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minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·8 months agoBut this directly goes against that philosophy, since now instead of changing timestamps it’s also creating files
minus-squarekautau@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-28 months agoYou can pass -c to not create a file, but it does go against the philosophy that it creates them by default instead of that being an option EDIT: Looking closer into the code, it would appear to maybe be an efficiency thing based on underlying system calls Without that check, touch just opens a file for writing, with no other filesystem check, and closes it With that check, touch first checks if the file exists, and then if so opens the file for writing
But this directly goes against that philosophy, since now instead of changing timestamps it’s also creating files
You can pass
-cto not create a file, but it does go against the philosophy that it creates them by default instead of that being an optionEDIT: Looking closer into the code, it would appear to maybe be an efficiency thing based on underlying system calls
Without that check, touch just opens a file for writing, with no other filesystem check, and closes it
With that check, touch first checks if the file exists, and then if so opens the file for writing