chraebsli@programming.dev to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 2 years agoTouch a file in Linuxprogramming.devimagemessage-square88linkfedilinkarrow-up11.11K
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minus-squareTrailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 years agoNot really. I believe : is the “true” builtin. So it’s like running a program that exits with zero and writes nothing to stdout. The >> streams the empty stdout into the named file.
Not really. I believe : is the “true” builtin. So it’s like running a program that exits with zero and writes nothing to stdout. The >> streams the empty stdout into the named file.