-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:20:25AM -0600, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: > Does anyone know the history behind the touch command? Why "touch"?
It was simply written as part of a complementary set of UNIX utilities, including finger, unzip, strip, uptime, gawk, head, mount, fsck, gasp, more, yes, umount, and sleep. No dark and twisted conspiracies to worry about. Mike .___________________________________________________________________. The overly examined life is not worth living. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRQhwLttAhTFtyodpAQPjRQf7BEucWA/IRi7WC/jAdNx/V/XJ9Ngs4RN+ ZYYAQhhMVUWpXRXmYRQ/xqp9HgeL8yTAbhfrHHvTbKc6uR1XP/2piDCcKuMD0WhE 5ExtgaGtPsqsr1ycy/hTUTZazFAMy5/V4/0s2mV+/g9SCsuXj3QZtRme20YJBx6q Frph2Ok6dBK3SX7wXTW4JeDkEYwPgCIBYbjm+EcKEhFzGeMuTcktE2X0t0cfu8Pl gisCmQnUyPmzX6tn0Gv7PiQeBe2b5wZa/Tt0dEEyVLtQR0kcAVYo4ZLWXMo36Shx o9ZeKlrVOhJLUYylm0l1b2kWz+OTwpNNequynL//eyVcFmuPMfBGew== =zODY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
