Re: With SysV touch -- what if the file name is only digits??

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 04:51

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In article <1992Sep25.183819.6396@twg.com> david@twg.com (David Herron) writes:
>In other words.. there are legitimate cases in which touch will not work.
>This is a bug.  How does one Officially report bugs to USL ???

It's a design deficiency, not a bug.  (There IS a difference.)  The time
argument should have been designed as an option argument so it could be
distinguished from the file arguments.

A workaround is to invoke "touch /tmp/X ${i}${j}{q}" in your example,
which is not elegant but lets you get the job done.

I think you report bugs by using the "trouble" utility or otherwise
invoking the paid support service.  If you're not paying for support
I don't think there's an official way to report bugs.  Try telling
your system vendor.

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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
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Subject: Re: With SysV touch -- what if the file name is only digits??
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Date: 30 Sep 92 04:51:05 GMT
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