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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago by chraebsli to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 8 months ago (56 children)

Does anyone actually use touch for its intended purpose? Must be up there with cat.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When you updated a Django server, you were supposed to touch the settings.py file so the server would know to reload your code. (I haven't used any for a long time, so I don't know if it's still the procedure.)

There are many small things that use it.

[–] alexdeathway 7 points 8 months ago

it now has a hot reload, How long ago were you using Django?

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