touch(1) General Commands Manual touch(1)
Name
touch - update access and modification times of a file
Syntax
touch [ -amcf ] [ mmddhhmm[yy] ] files
Description
The command causes the access and modification times of each argument to be updated. The file name is created if it does not already
exist. If no time is specified, the current time is used. For a more detailed explanation of how to specify the date and time, see
The return code from is the number of files for which the times could not be successfully modified, including files that did not exist and
were not created. This utility runs under the SYSTEM_FIVE environment.
Options
-a Causes to update the access time.
-c Prevents from creating the file if it did not previously exist.
-f Attempts to force the touch in spite of read and write restrictions on a file.
-m Causes to update the modification time.
Note that the default setting for the command is -am.
See Also
date(1), utime(2)
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