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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago by chraebsli to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Touch is super useful for commands that interact with a file but don't create the file by default. For example, yesterday I needed to copy a file to a remote machine accessible over ssh so I used scp (often known as "secure copy") but needed to touch the file in order to create it before scp would copy into it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Sorry, what?