Timeline for What is the use of the -f option for `touch`?
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| Mar 21, 2016 at 14:27 | history | edited | Chris Down | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 2 characters in body |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 13:15 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | Nitpick: in the source, it doesn't break out of the loop, it breaks out of the switch and continues processing the next option, if any. | |
| S Mar 20, 2016 at 14:39 | history | suggested | Jonathan Leffler | CC BY-SA 3.0 | option --> version |
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| Mar 20, 2016 at 11:31 | history | edited | Chris Down | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 12 characters in body |
| Mar 20, 2016 at 11:25 | comment | added | Chris Down | @sukminder Ace, thanks! I'll add your information into the answer. | |
| Mar 20, 2016 at 11:22 | comment | added | Runium | -f is/was used to try to force update even if file permissions did to permit it on BSD. Not in V10, but v9 : freebsd.org/cgi/… (of FreeBSD at least). | |
| Mar 20, 2016 at 11:22 | comment | added | Pandya | Hmm.. I've just checked Coreutils manual, which say: "Ignored; for compatibility with BSD versions of touch. " | |
| Mar 20, 2016 at 11:22 | history | edited | Chris Down | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 55 characters in body |
| Mar 20, 2016 at 11:21 | comment | added | Chris Down | @heemayl Except for I couldn't find a BSD that seems to ship with an "-f" argument to touch, so it must be quite old. | |
| Mar 20, 2016 at 11:19 | comment | added | heemayl | info page says Ignored; for compatibility with BSD versions of `touch'. | |
| Mar 20, 2016 at 11:18 | history | answered | Chris Down | CC BY-SA 3.0 |