Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
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Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
touch is great when you want to find a file with a higher degree of time-fidelity than what the various -Xtime flags will get you. E.g., With find's mtime flag, I'm limited to "modified less than 24 hours ago". However, if I use touch in concert with one of find's Xnewer flags, I can reduce my search window to something much smaller. E.g., I could do something like:
Haven't had much need of this lately, but, was previously useful compiling something from source and didn't intimately know where it would have put all the files I needed to care about.
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touchis great when you want to find a file with a higher degree of time-fidelity than what the various-Xtimeflags will get you. E.g., Withfind'smtimeflag, I'm limited to "modified less than 24 hours ago". However, if I usetouchin concert with one offind'sXnewerflags, I can reduce my search window to something much smaller. E.g., I could do something like:Haven't had much need of this lately, but, was previously useful compiling something from source and didn't intimately know where it would have put all the files I needed to care about.