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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)

submitted 9 months ago by chraebsli to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (6 children)

The other command could just be printf '' >> file to not overwrite it. Or even simpler >>file and then interrupt

[–] owsei 10 points 9 months ago (5 children)

or :>>file then you don't need to interrupt

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

that's awesome, did not know about that handy operator!

[–] owsei 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah!

it's basically a noop, I use it as a placeholder when I'm writing a script, since bash doesn't accept code blocks with no commands

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