bsd man page for touch

Query: touch

OS: bsd

Section: 1

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TOUCH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  TOUCH(1)

NAME
touch - update date last modified of a file
SYNOPSIS
touch [ -c ] [ -f ] file ...
DESCRIPTION
Touch attempts to set the modified date of each file. If a file exists, this is done by reading a character from the file and writing it back. If a file does not exist, an attempt will be made to create it unless the -c option is specified. The -f option will attempt to force the touch in spite of read and write permissions on a file.
SEE ALSO
utimes(2) 7th Edition April 29, 1985 TOUCH(1)
Related Man Pages
touch(1b) - opensolaris
touch(1) - debian
touch(1) - centos
touch(1) - suse
touch(1) - xfree86
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