cat problem ???

Stephen R Laniel steve at laniels.org
Thu Dec 21 22:14:49 UTC 2006


On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 12:15:37AM +0200, Dimitri Mallis wrote:
> in all the example tutorials i have looked at cat is supposed to create the
> file for you if it does not exist :(

That's not what 'cat' does. cat prints the contents of the
files you specify. If you want to create a file that doesn't
exist, use 'touch'.

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