Eric, On Friday 02 December 2005 12:28, Eric E wrote:
Funny, I got the advice to use /usr/bin/touch from IRC... Anyway, it seems to be in both on my machine:
# which touch /usr/bin/touch
# ls /bin/touch /bin/touch
It goes all the way back to the dim dark mists of time. At least to Bell Labs v7 Unix. To wit: % rpm -q --whatprovides /bin/touch /usr/bin/touch coreutils-5.3.0-20 coreutils-5.3.0-20 It's probably in both places (/usr/bin/touch is a symlink on my system) because over time different versions of Unix (-like operating systems) have put it in different places and having both just prevents a lot of things from breaking. And check out the man page. You can, e.g., control the actual timestamp used, overriding the default which is the time of invocation. Randall Schulz