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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)Posted Dec 12, 2011 6:00 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by chuckles Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)
Well, try to write 'touch' utility in Bash (assume that there's no 'touch' utility present).
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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) Posted Dec 12, 2011 16:40 UTC (Mon) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647) [Link] That's just about the most trivial thing you can do:>filename
Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) Posted Dec 12, 2011 17:07 UTC (Mon) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] That only works if the file doesn't exist. Otherwise, it replaces your file with an empty file.
Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) Posted Dec 12, 2011 17:42 UTC (Mon) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647) [Link]
I know, that matches the behavior of the PowerShell code that Cyberax posted (as far as I can tell). Not really "touch" but "make this file empty".
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