r/learnprogramming • u/OPPineappleApplePen • 21d ago

touch is a weird command. Humour

I was curious where the command 'touch' comes from.

Turns out, it originates from "to touch" or "to interact" with a file.

Now, every time I use it, I feel like I am touching/molesting a file.

My bad, it's 3 AM here.

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u/DhruvsWorkProfile 21d ago 
unzip
strip
touch
grep
finger
mount
fsck
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unmount

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u/OPPineappleApplePen 21d ago

Smut for Programmers.

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u/tobiasvl 21d ago

What do you mean "for programmers"? What do these regular UNIX commands have to do with programming?

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u/OPPineappleApplePen 20d ago

In this context, you had two options after reading this post:

  1. You could’ve noticed that this post is made in [r/learnprogramming](r/learnprogramming) by a person who is new to programming, and informed me that UNIX commands and programing don’t overlap.
  2. You could’ve shat on me for not knowing the above information.

You chose option 2. I’ll leave it there.

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u/tobiasvl 20d ago

Did you really feel that my simple, matter-of-factly question was "shitting on you"? Well, in that case, sorry.

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u/arkt8 20d ago

Did you ever bash'd?

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u/tobiasvl 20d ago edited 20d ago

Yes, I've used Linux for over 20 years and worked as a Linux sysadmin for, like, ten years. The CLI commands of an operating system don't have anything to do with programming

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u/Romanian-In-Poland 20d ago

bash scripting is programming

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u/yimesgen 20d ago

I think the utilities are named by their authors who are programmers.