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dgunay opened this issue Feb 19, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by #3158
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touch doesn't support - #3157

dgunay opened this issue Feb 19, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by #3158
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dgunay commented Feb 19, 2022

IMO a highly confusing feature but touch is failing the empty-file.sh test because it doesn't seem to support this yet:

A file argument string of ‘-’ is handled specially and causes touch to change the times of the file associated with standard output.

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