Paul Eggert wrote:
pavan kumar yalavarthi wrote:
" *touch -* " is not working i.e., file named " - " is not being
created
It's not a bug. In coreutils, 'touch -' is documented to touch the
standard output file, not a file named '-'. The POSIX specification
for 'touch' allows either the coreutils behavior or the other
Thought it was a bit humorous, the bit about touching ... "stdout"?
or... as in "/dev/stdout"? Definitely not in my man page for touch,
new change? I do see it in "touch --help", so seems relatively new.
What is touched ? /dev/stdout?
"Touching the 'file' associated with stdout"?
How would I (or someone) use it? Was/is there a use case
that supported or needed the new feature?
Curious: partially because I was/am amused and see no clue as to how
to use such a feature.
