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Re: Bug#438671: coreutils: 'touch' documentation needs to be clarified
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: Bug#438671: coreutils: 'touch' documentation needs to be clarified |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:14:02 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438671
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > The 'touch' documentation (info manual, man page and 'touch --help'
> > > output) needs to be clarified.
> > > ...
> > I could suggest the following:
> >
> > touch [OPTION]... FILE...
> >
> > Any FILE argument that does not exist is created empty.
> >
> > A FILE argument string of `-' is handled specially and causes
> > `touch' to change the times of the file associated with standard output.
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> Thanks! That looks good.
> Want to send a patch, or tell me where to pull from?
Please pull this proposed patch from the repository at:
git fetch --no-tags git://git.proulx.com/coreutils touch-help:touch-help
Thanks
Bob
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