Re: Bourne sh redirection, a loop variable, and ':'

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:53:01PM CEST:
> > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 9/13/2008 1:27 AM:
> >>> #  for i in 1 2 3 ; do : >x$i ; sleep 60 ; done ; date ; ls -l x*

> What about suggesting "touch" instead?  Can we assume its presence?

Yes, but it has the documented issues; albeit, all of those are pretty
much not a problem any more.  (There are embedded systems where utime is
not implemented, thus touch -r/-t does not work; but that is not
relevant here.)

Cheers,
Ralf