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Bug regarding "touch" command |
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Fri, 4 Aug 2017 11:05:53 +0530 |
" touch - " is not working i.e., file named " - " is not being created using touch command in ubuntu flavours , but working fine with linux flavours.
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Re: bug#27942: Bug regarding "touch" command |
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Fri, 4 Aug 2017 00:16:23 -0700 |
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pavan kumar yalavarthi wrote:
" *touch -* " is not working i.e., file named " - " is not being created
using *touch *command in* ubuntu* flavours , but working fine with* linux *
flavours.
It's not a bug. In coreutils, 'touch -' is documented to touch the standard
output file, not a file named '-'. The POSIX specification for 'touch' allows
either the coreutils behavior or the other behavior that you mentioned. If you
want to touch a file named '-', the command 'touch ./-' is a portable way to do it.
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