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- TOUCH(1) An MS-DOS Utility TOUCH(1)
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- NAME
- touch - modify the date and time stamp for the named file(s)
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- SYNOPSIS
- touch [-cv] [-d date] [-t time] filespec...
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- DESCRIPTION
- Touch allows you to modify the date and time of last write stamp
- for the named file(s). You may specify the date and/or time
- touch is to use, or you may let touch default to the system date
- and/or time. If the file to be touched does not exist, touch
- will create it.
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- Touch supports the following options:
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- -c Don't auto-create files that don't exist.
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- -v List the touched files to stdout.
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- -d date Use the specified date instead of the system
- date. The date string must be in the form
- <month><delim><day><delim><year>. Month must be
- an integer in the range [1..12]; day must be an
- integer in the range [1..max_date_for_month];
- year must be an integer in the range
- [1980..2100], though [80..99] may be used as a
- shorthand form for 1980..1999. The delimiter may
- be any non-numeric character.
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- -t time Use the specified time instead of the system
- time. The time string must be in the form
- <hour><delim><min>[<delim><sec>]. Hour must be
- an integer in the range [0..23]; min must be an
- integer in the range [0..59]; the optional sec
- must be an integer in the range [0..59] The
- delimiter may be any non-numeric character.
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- The filespec parameter(s) may be any legitimate MS-DOS filespec
- and may include any valid MS-DOS wildcard characters.
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- If an error occurs during the attempted modification (such as
- trying to modify a sub-directory), a message saying so appears
- in the output next to the appropriate filespec. Touch then
- continues with the next filespec. Touch returns an exit status
- of the number of files for which the touch failed on normal exit
- or 255 for a fatal exit.
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- AUTHOR
- Richard Hargrove
- Texas Instruments, Inc.
- P.O. Box 869305, m/s 8473
- Plano, TX 75086
- 214/575-4128
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