From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 06:08:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (touch invocation): "touch -" now touches standard output.
X-Git-Tag: v5.90~67
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=add931ac28e275f75b676c7754c699863e6c0ad9;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(touch invocation): "touch -" now touches standard output.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 7b9da4f168..66d4c717d6 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -8541,6 +8541,9 @@ touch [@var{option}]@dots{} @var{file}@dots{}
 @cindex empty files, creating
 Any @var{file} that does not exist is created empty.
 
+A @var{file} of @samp{-} causes @command{touch} to change the
+times of the file associated with standard output.
+
 @cindex permissions, for changing file timestamps
 If changing both the access and modification times to the current
 time, @command{touch} can change the timestamps for files that the user