From: Stan Marsh
Subject: bug#79907: Minor minor bug: apropos does not suggest touch
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:25:01 -0700
> Yes, modern users of modern shells usually do it that way (Just do: > file
> alone as a line in your script), but note that the "touch" method
> became popular when "csh" (now known as "tcsh") was more commonly used
> and the "> file" (alone) trick doesn't work in "csh".
I should add, for completeness, that tcsh does have the ':'
(null/equivalent to "true") command, so this works (just tested it):
% : > file
Don't know if this was in original csh.
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