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

Quoting Brian Stansberry<brian.stansberry(a)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(a)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(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev > _______________________________________________ jboss-as7-dev mailing list jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev