[jboss-as7-dev] Deployment -- why marker files?

[Dimitris Andreadis]

Actually 'echo' is not equivalent to the touch command because it will put a "ECHO is ON." 
into the file :-) But it will work, since the file content is irrelevant.

On 12/04/2011 20:49, Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> echo>  foo.war.dodeploy looks like the simplest option.
>
> Strictly speaking, the 'touch equivalent' is
> echo>>  for.war.dodeploy
>
> On 12/04/2011 20:39, ssilvert at redhat.com wrote:
>> Quoting Brian Stansberry<brian.stansberry at redhat.com>:
>>
>>> Thanks; this discussion got me motivated to fire up my old Winx XP
>>> laptop and figure out how to do 'touch'. I wanted to add
>>> Windows-variants to that README.
>>>
>>> COPY /B foo.war.dodeploy+,, doesn't seem to work, but either of these did:
>>>
>>> type nul>>   foo.war.dodeploy
>>> copy nul>>   foo.war.dodeploy
>>
>> I'm on Windows 7.  To create a new dodeploy I use:
>>
>> echo>   foo.war.dodeploy
>>
>> The type command above seems to work OK for touch, but copy will
>> modify the file, which you don't want.
>>
>>>
>>> If anyone has a Win 7 machine and can confirm either of those still
>>> work, that would be great.
>>>
>>> On 4/12/11 12:01 PM, Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
>>>> There is so standard 'touch' on windows. You have to use tricks
>>>> from the command line like:
>>>> COPY /B myfile+,,
>>>>
>>>> Normal windows users would probably right-click to create a new
>>>> text file and then click to
>>>> manually rename it. Or open in an editor an existing one and save
>>>> it in order to achieve the
>>>> 'touch' effect.
>>>>
>>>> It's a bit of a pain for them.
>>>>
>>>> On 12/04/2011 19:41, Jim Tyrrell wrote:
>>>>>> If you have some ideas how we can make it more clear thats great.
>>>>>>    One thing I realize is that Windows folks have no idea what
>>>>>> touch  is so I know we need to improve it at least there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does touch even exist on windows?  Been a long time since I used it.
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> jboss-as7-dev mailing list
>>>> jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org
>>>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Brian Stansberry
>>> Principal Software Engineer
>>> JBoss by Red Hat
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> jboss-as7-dev mailing list
>>> jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org
>>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> jboss-as7-dev mailing list
>> jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org
>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev
>

-- 
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dimitris Andreadis
Software Engineering Manager
JBoss Application Server
by Red Hat
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

http://dandreadis.blogspot.com/