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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#47014: Design flaw: incompatible touch '-f' gnu-option causes loss of (meta)data by default |
| Date: | Mon, 8 Mar 2021 16:07:01 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.1 |
On 3/8/21 3:27 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
gnu accepts but ignores the previously active '-f'(from) switch
GNU "touch -f" has always been a no-op and has never meant "from" as far as I know - though I admit I looked back only to 1992. Perhaps you're thinking of some other "touch" program? If so, which one and which version?
Is the data loss you mentioned something that you actually observed? If so, what was the context?
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