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Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by chraebsli@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 132 points 1 year ago (56 children)

Does anyone actually use touch for its intended purpose? Must be up there with cat.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you updated a Django server, you were supposed to touch the settings.py file so the server would know to reload your code. (I haven't used any for a long time, so I don't know if it's still the procedure.)

There are many small things that use it.

[–] alexdeathway@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

it now has a hot reload, How long ago were you using Django?

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