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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I mean, timestamps aren't really all that useful. Really just if you do some stuff with makefiles but even then it's a stretch. I did once use cat for its intended purpose tho, for a report. We split up the individual chapters into their own files so we have an easier time with git stuff, made a script that had an array with the files in the order we wanted, gave it to cat and piped that into pandoc