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From: "Carsey, Jaben" <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
To: Jeff Westfahl <jeff.westfahl@ni.com>, "edk2-devel@lists.01.org"
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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 se=
e 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 exis=
t
> Importance: High
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Regards,
> Jeff