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minus-squareMonkeyTown@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoI thought for sure, for sure this was bullshit. For sure Linux doesn’t have a touch command. What could it possibly do.? Changing timestamps and creating empty files… Of course, that makes so much sense. 🤔
minus-squaredouble_quack@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoIt does make sense! When you modify a file, you do “things” on it, you write it. So the minimum you can possibly do to a file to modify it, is “to poke it”: to touch it.
I thought for sure, for sure this was bullshit. For sure Linux doesn’t have a touch command. What could it possibly do.?
Changing timestamps and creating empty files…
Of course, that makes so much sense. 🤔
It does make sense! When you modify a file, you do “things” on it, you write it. So the minimum you can possibly do to a file to modify it, is “to poke it”: to touch it.