touch

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NAME

touch - change file timestamps


SYNOPSIS
touch [OPTION]... FILE...

DESCRIPTION

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
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 -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.

AUTHOR

Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie,
and Randy Smith.


REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT

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.



SEE ALSO

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 coreutils touch


should give you access to the complete manual.






touch (coreutils) 5.2.1 July 2004 TOUCH(1)