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If the file does not exist, it creates an empty file. That is what most people use touch for.
by cferr 5y ago
If the file does not exist, it creates an empty file. That is what most people use touch for.
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- IncRnd 5y agoThat's one use case. The actual use case touch was designed for was to update the timestamp of a file. This is a huge case for developers, since timestamps are used in dependency resolution of partial compilation. [1] [1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/touch.1.html https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/touch.1.html NAME touch - change file timestamps DESCRIPTION Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.