Re: touch --create?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 02/19/2013 01:39 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Sometimes, I want to create a file and want it to succeed only
> if the file wasn't previously there.
>
> What about adding a complementary option to touch --no-create
> which could be used like this?
>
>    $ touch --create file \
>      || { echo "creating file failed" >&2; exit 1; }
>
> I know the same could also be achieved with dd:
>
>    $ dd of=xx conv=excl status=none count=0 \
>      || { echo "creating file failed" >&2; exit 1; }
>
> but maybe it's worth adding to touch, too.
> WDYT?

One of those borderline ones. It was already discussed here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2011-10/msg00030.html
The consensus for now being, alternatives suggested at that link, suffice.

thanks,
Pádraig.