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

[Dimitris Andreadis]

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.
>
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>> 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.
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