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touch - change file timestamps
touch [OPTION]... FILE...
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -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
- change the specified time: WORD is access, atime, or use: equivalent to
-a WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to -m
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
Note that the -d and -t options
accept different time-date formats.
Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins,
Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.
Report bugs
to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2004 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.
The full documentation for touch is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
If the info and touch programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
- info touch
should give you access to the complete manual.
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