chraebsli@programming.dev to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 year agoTouch a file in Linuxprogramming.devimagemessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down11
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minus-square4am@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year ago“Do one thing and do it very well” is the UNIX philosophy after all; if you’re 99% likely to just create that missing file after you get a file not found error, why should touch waste your time?
minus-squareTrailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoBecause now touch does two things. Without touch, we could “just” use the shell to create files. : > foo.txt
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoTouch does one thing from a “contract” perspective: Ensure the timestamp of <file> is <now>
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoSystemd also does one thing from a contract perspective: run your system
“Do one thing and do it very well” is the UNIX philosophy after all; if you’re 99% likely to just create that missing file after you get a file not found error, why should
touchwaste your time?Because now touch does two things.
Without touch, we could “just” use the shell to create files.
Touch does one thing from a “contract” perspective:
Ensure the timestamp of <file> is <now>
Systemd also does one thing from a contract perspective: run your system