touch
NAME
touch - change file timestamps
SYNOPSIS
touch
[OPTION]... FILE...
touch
[-acm] MMDDhhmm[YY] FILE... (obsolescent)
DESCRIPTION
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.
- -a
- change only the access time
- -c, --no-create
- do not create any files
- -d, --date=STRING
- parse STRING and use it instead of current time
- -f
- (ignored)
- -m
- change only the modification time
- -r, --reference=FILE
- use this file's times instead of current time
- -t STAMP
- use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time
- --time=WORD
- set time given by WORD: access atime use (same as -a)
modify mtime (same as -m)
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
Note that the three time-date formats recognized for the -d and -t options
and for the obsolescent argument are all different.
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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