Timeline for What is the use of the -f option for `touch`?
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| Apr 1, 2016 at 6:42 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1 character in body; added 36 characters in body |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 7:59 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1191 characters in body |
| Mar 23, 2016 at 17:30 | comment | added | Barmar | @alephzero That's because the version in OS X is the BSD version, which GNU is maintaining compatibiility with. | |
| Mar 21, 2016 at 5:56 | vote | accept | Pandya | ||
| Mar 20, 2016 at 21:19 | comment | added | Guntram Blohm | Using the GUI isn't neccesarily "better". The point of using scripts is automating stuff, which includes ensuring your script runs unmodified on as many unixy dialects as possible, or at least on most dialects you're likely to encounter, and this is where these old, deprecated compatibility issues become a concern. | |
| Mar 20, 2016 at 19:49 | comment | added | alephzero | According to developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/… -f still functions in Mac OS X. (But no doubt there are at least 57 different ways of performing the same functionality "better," using the GUI!) | |
| Mar 20, 2016 at 11:33 | history | answered | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |