bug#79907: Minor minor bug: apropos does not suggest touch

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Dec 2025 08:49:32 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-11-30 23:02, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> Very rarely it matters that st_mtime gets set to ‘now’

In my experience it matters reasonably often when "touch" is used, e.g., 
when a makefile action is "touch $@". Yes, "echo >>$@" would usually 
work, but it would chew up space (and therefore could fail when the 
touch would succeed, and the echo is less intuitive because it's not 
always immediately obvious that the file contents are irrelevant.