http://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Touch 2026-04-29T05:27:17Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.18.0 http://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Touch&diff=4712&oldid=prev 2004-09-29T14:10:20Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 14:10, 29 September 2004</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This is mostly useful for scripting operations in which you want to make sure a file exists to be opened before attempting to open it.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This is mostly useful for scripting operations in which you want to make sure a file exists to be opened before attempting to open it.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[Category:System Commands]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[</ins>[Category:System Commands<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>]</div></td></tr> </table>

Jimbo http://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Touch&diff=527&oldid=prev 2004-09-29T14:09:57Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 14:09, 29 September 2004</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>touch creates empty files</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>touch<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' </ins>creates empty files<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, or updates the modification times on existing files if the user running '''touch''' has write permission to do so.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>&#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">If you attempt to '''touch''' a file which already exists but you do not have write permissions to, or '''touch''' a new file in a directory in which you do not have write permissions, you will get a &quot;Permission Denied&quot; error.&#160; Otherwise it quietly succeeds and simply updates the mtime on the file / creates a new file with the specified name.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>&#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This is mostly useful for scripting operations in which you want to make sure a file exists to be opened before attempting to open it.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>&#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[Category:System Commands]</ins></div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key bsdwiki:diff:version:1.11a:oldid:526:newid:527 --> </table>

Jimbo http://freebsdwiki.net/index.php?title=Touch&diff=526&oldid=prev 2004-09-29T08:09:00Z

<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>touch creates empty files</div>

Dave