Github user enixon commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/120#discussion_r95714094 --- Diff: bin/zkServer-initialize.sh --- @@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ initialize() { else echo "No myid provided, be sure to specify it in $ZOO_DATADIR/myid if using non-standalone" fi + + date > "$ZOO_DATADIR/initialize" --- End diff -- True enough, `touch` is sufficient. Using `date` is an optimization I've included in other scripts in the past as a way of sneaking a bit more information into an otherwise meaningless file but in this context it's probably just confusing.
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