Timeline for What does 'touch' stand for?
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| Feb 18, 2018 at 8:06 | comment | added | Ned64 | I suppose one could ask "when was the file last touched?" to mean when it was last changed (e.g. by writing to it), or "the file hasn't been touched in years". The touch command simulates the effect, hence the name. | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 14:44 | comment | added | DopeGhoti | It's certainly frequently used for that, but its own self-description on its own man page is: "touch -- change file access and modification times". | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 23:30 | comment | added | Xorifelse | Short explanation, to the point and explaining exactly what it does. However it is generally used to create a file. | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 22:24 | comment | added | Remi.b | Oohh. It was not intuitive to me that the verb 'touch' would be a good match for the role of the command touch but I get it now. Thanks | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 22:23 | vote | accept | Remi.b | ||
| Mar 31, 2017 at 22:15 | history | answered | DopeGhoti | CC BY-SA 3.0 |