[HADOOP-7193] Help message is wrong for touchz command.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.21.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.1, 0.22.0, 0.23.0
• Component/s: fs
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Updated the help for the touchz command.
• Assignee: Uma Maheswara Rao G
• Reporter: Uma Maheswara Rao G
• Created: 16/Mar/11 05:28
• Updated: 16/Mar/13 04:37
• Resolved: 23/Mar/11 22:01

Description

Help message for touchz command is
-touchz <path>: Write a timestamp in yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss format
in a file at <path>. An error is returned if the file exists with non-zero length.

Actually current DFS behaviour is that it will not write any time stamp in created file. Just it is creating zero size file.

So better to change the help message to give exact meaning.