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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 7 months ago (56 children)

Does anyone actually use touch for its intended purpose? Must be up there with cat.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 7 months ago (1 children)

TIL it's actually for changing timestamps.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wtf. All these years I thought 'touch' was reference to Michelangelo's Creation of Adam.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago

That's beautiful, bro 🥲

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

touché

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

That's not how you use "touché". Pet peeve of mine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Touché!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

🇪🇳 🇬🇦🇷🇩🇪

or...

ʳᶦᵖᵒˢᵗᵉ...?

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