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Re: Touch symlink
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: Touch symlink |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:52:00 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
"Donald J. Axel" <address@hidden> writes:
> Should
> there be an option for touching the link and leaving the
> original file?
Most likely yes, however, I don't know of any way to implement such an
option in portable Posix code, on GNU/Linux, or on Solaris. FreeBSD
can do it, though: its touch has a "-h" option that does what you
want, and GNU touch could be modified to support -h on BSDish systems.
- Touch symlink, Donald J. Axel, 2006/04/25
- Re: Touch symlink,
Paul Eggert <=