TOUCH

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 29, 1985
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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)

 

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