Re: Bug#438671: coreutils: 'touch' documentation needs to be clarified

[Bob Proulx]

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438671

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > The 'touch' documentation (info manual, man page and 'touch --help'
> > > output) needs to be clarified.
> > > ...
> > I could suggest the following:
> >
> >        touch [OPTION]... FILE...
> >
> >      Any FILE argument that does not exist is created empty.
> >
> >      A FILE argument string of `-' is handled specially and causes
> >   `touch' to change the times of the file associated with standard output.
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> Thanks!  That looks good.
> Want to send a patch, or tell me where to pull from?

Please pull this proposed patch from the repository at:

  git fetch --no-tags git://git.proulx.com/coreutils touch-help:touch-help

Thanks
Bob