minix man page for touch

Query: touch

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TOUCH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  TOUCH(1)

NAME
touch - update a file's time of last modification
SYNOPSIS
touch [-c] file ...
OPTIONS
-c Do not create the file
EXAMPLES
touch *.h # Make the .h files look recent
DESCRIPTION
############ NEXT ENTRY HAS NOT BEEN CHECKED ############# The time of last modification is set to the current time. This command is mostly used to trick make into thinking that a file is more recent than it really is. If the file being touched does not exist, it is created, unless the -c flag is present.
SEE ALSO
utime(2). TOUCH(1)
Related Man Pages
touch(1) - linux
touch(1) - opendarwin
touch(1) - osx
touch(1) - freebsd
touch(3) - php
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