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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem Running Touch From Script Post 302198760 by wrapster on Friday 23rd of May 2008 09:59:50 PM
Old 05-23-2008
I dont see any issues here,esp when you say that the same commands when cut and pasted onto the terminal yield the result...
(Am no expert either!!)

However you could try this to figure out the error you have (if any )in the script...

bash -xv <your script>
This should be a good starting point....

Secondly you could try this...
/usr/bin/touch <your file name>
and see if it works!!!!

would like to know what happens,keep me posted!!!
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

touch

touch(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						 touch(1B)

NAME

       touch - change file access and modification times

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/touch [-acfm] file...

DESCRIPTION

       touch sets the access and modification times of each file to the current time. file is created if it does not already exist.

OPTIONS

       -a    Change the access time of file. Do not change the modification time unless -m is also specified.

       -c    Do not create file if it does not exist.

       -f    Attempt to force the touch in spite of read and write permissions on file.

       -m    Change the modification time of file. Do not change the access time unless -a is also specified.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of touch when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0     touch executed successfully and all requested changes were made.

       >0    An error occurred. touch returns the number of files for which the times could not be successfully modified.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       touch(1), attributes(5), largefile(5)

SunOS 5.11							    26 Oct 1995 							 touch(1B)
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