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Authored by: gidds on Feb 26, '04 12:40:16PM
touch simply creates an (empty) file, so the obvious antidote is to remove the file - change the touch to rm.

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Authored by: frankxiv on Feb 26, '04 02:35:35PM

Actually to be clear, touch only creates an empty file if the file you are "touching" doesn't already exist. The real function of touch is to change the date and time of a file without changing the file's contents.

In fact, if used with the -c modifier touch won't even create a new file if one with that name doesn't already exist.

Later, Frank



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Authored by: filmsmith on Feb 26, '04 02:58:48PM

Thanks to you both! One of these days (I keep telling myself that) I'll become more proficient with Terminal and all of it's abilities.



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