[Chicago-talk] perl touch

Kent Cowgill kent at c2group.net
Tue May 9 13:41:19 PDT 2006


Indeed.  I was was just after correcting the syntax, not whether or not it
performs as expected (hoped?)

Even:
perl -e 'open $fh, ">>", 'what' or die "$!"; print $fh ""'

... doesn't seem to change *anything*, at least not according to stat in
cygwin on windows...

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Steven Lembark wrote:

>
>  >> open my $fh, '>>', $filename
>
>
> Double check whether this might update the mtime (vs. just
> the atime) of existing files.
>
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