chraebsli@programming.dev to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 8 months agoTouch a file in Linuxprogramming.devimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down12
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minus-square4am@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months ago“Do one thing and do it very well” is the UNIX philosophy after all; if you’re 99% likely to just create that missing file after you get a file not found error, why should touch waste your time?
minus-squareTrailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoBecause now touch does two things. Without touch, we could “just” use the shell to create files. : > foo.txt
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoTouch does one thing from a “contract” perspective: Ensure the timestamp of <file> is <now>
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoSystemd also does one thing from a contract perspective: run your system
minus-squarestebo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agowith this logic, any command that moves, copies or opens a file should just create a new file if it doesn’t exist and now you’re just creating new files without realising just because of a typo
“Do one thing and do it very well” is the UNIX philosophy after all; if you’re 99% likely to just create that missing file after you get a file not found error, why should
touchwaste your time?Because now touch does two things.
Without touch, we could “just” use the shell to create files.
Touch does one thing from a “contract” perspective:
Ensure the timestamp of <file> is <now>
Systemd also does one thing from a contract perspective: run your system
Oh no.
:(
Does it do it well, though?
with this logic, any command that moves, copies or opens a file should just create a new file if it doesn’t exist
and now you’re just creating new files without realising just because of a typo