From: "Carsey, Jaben" <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
To: Jeff Westfahl <jeff.westfahl@ni.com>,
"edk2-devel@lists.01.org" <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>
Cc: "Ni, Ruiyu" <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Shell 'touch' command fails if touched file doesn't already exist
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 22:13:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CB6E33457884FA40993F35157061515C630BCC9B@FMSMSX103.amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1705121640230.14493@jmw-lm181>
I think that since the UEFI Shell Spec does not mention creating new files and no one has mentioned it before, we just didn't think of it. I don't see that it would violate the spec; I would welcome such a enhancement.
-Jaben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Westfahl [mailto:jeff.westfahl@ni.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 2:44 PM
> To: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> Cc: Ni, Ruiyu <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>; Carsey, Jaben <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
> Subject: Shell 'touch' command fails if touched file doesn't already exist
> Importance: High
>
> I see that the shell 'touch' command doesn't create the specified file if it doesn't
> already exist. Is this by design? My experience with the 'touch' command in
> other operating environments leads me to expect it to create the file if it doesn't
> already exist.
>
> Regards,
> Jeff
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2017-05-12 21:43 Shell 'touch' command fails if touched file doesn't already exist Jeff Westfahl
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