chraebsli to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 9 months agoTouch a file in Linuxprogramming.devimagemessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up11.2Karrow-down131
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minus-squareTrailblazing Braille Taserlinkfedilink35•9 months agoBecause now touch does two things. Without touch, we could “just” use the shell to create files. : > foo.txt
minus-square@deegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink20•9 months agoTouch does one thing from a “contract” perspective: Ensure the timestamp of <file> is <now>
minus-square@dan@upvote.aulinkfedilink15•9 months agoSystemd also does one thing from a contract perspective: run your system
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
Oh no.
:(
Does it do it well, though?