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Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > BTW, if you just need to ensure that a file exists, a safe alternative
> > to 'touch ${FILE}' is ':>>${FILE}'.  Makefiles in src/sys/modules
> > which use touch should probably be updated to use this instead.
> It doesn't change the file's last modification time for me using /bin/sh:
> [...]
> So ':>>${FILE}' isn't the same as 'touch ${FILE}' for existing files.

when the purpose is only "to ensure that a file exists" as I wrote
above, this does not matter.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no