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Article #253Re: With SysV touch -- what if the file name is only digits??
From: Arthur S. Kamlet
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:33
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:33
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In article <19228@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>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.
or even "touch /dev/null ${i}${j}${k}"
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Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!convex!linac!att!cbnews!ask From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet) Subject: Re: With SysV touch -- what if the file name is only digits?? Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:33:13 GMT Message-ID: <1992Sep30.193313.2340@cbnews.cb.att.com> References: <1992Sep25.183819.6396@twg.com> <19228@smoke.brl.mil> Lines: 15