10-13-2009
Creating empty files
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
Write a single command to create a new empty file in P1 called cloud9, I have to do it from my current working directory which is P3 cd ../ away
P1 and P3 are both in the home directory but i'm in P3
2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:
touch cloud9
3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):
touch cloud9 ../P1
4. School (University) and Course Number:UWM Intro to Unix
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debconf-mergetemplate - merge together multiple debconf template files
SYNOPSIS
debconf-mergetemplate [options] [templates.ll ...] templates
DESCRIPTION
Note: This utility is deprecated. You should switch to using po-debconf's po2debconf program.
This program is useful if you have multiple debconf templates files which you want to merge together into one big file. All the specified
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2012-09-10 DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)