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NAME
touch - change file timestamps
SYNOPSIS
touch
[-acm] [-r reference-file] [-t MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
[-d time] [+time {atime,access,use,mtime,modify}] [+date time]
[+file reference-file] [+no-create] file...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
touch.
touch
changes the access and modification times of each given file to the
current time. Files that do not exist are created empty.
If the first file name given would be a valid argument to the
-t
option and no timestamp is given with any of the
-d,
-r,
or
-t
options and the
--
argument is not given, that argument is interpreted as the time for
the other files instead of as a filename.
OPTIONS
- -a, +time=atime, +time=access, +time=use
-
Change the access time only.
- -c, +no-create
-
Do not create files that do not exist.
- -d, +date time
-
Use
time
(which can be in various common formats) instead of the current time.
Month names, timezones, `am' and `pm', etc. are recognized.
- -m, +time=mtime, +time=modify
-
Change the modification time only.
- -r, +file reference-file
-
Use the times of
reference-file
instead of the current time.
- -t MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]
-
Use the argument (months, days, hours, minutes, optional century and
years, optional seconds) instead of the current time.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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