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what is the difference between Touch & cat command
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Answer Posted / lafir gk
touch:- This can be used to create a file with size 0 and
to change the time stamp of a file.
cat:- This can be used to display the content of a
file,concatinate etc.
Ex :
# cat Example.txt
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touch command changes the modified date and time of the
file.
before use touch command
#ls -ltr
-rw-r--r-- 1 s file1 02 Nov 29 19:24 Example.txt
# touch Example.txt
#ls -ltr
-rw-r--r-- 1 s file1 02 Nov 29 19:43 Example.txt
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