debian man page for plan9-touch

TOUCH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  TOUCH(1)

NAME
       touch - set modification date of a file

SYNOPSIS
       touch [ -c ] [ -t time ] file ...

DESCRIPTION
       Touch attempts to set the modification time of the files to time (by default, the current time).  If a file does not exist, it will be cre-
       ated unless option -c is present.

SOURCE
       /src/cmd/touch.c

SEE ALSO
       ls(1), stat(3), chmod(1)

BUGS
       Touch will not touch directories.

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