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- NAME
- touch - change file timestamps
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- SYNOPSIS
- touch [-acfm] [-r reference-file] [-t MMD-
- Dhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]] [-d time]
- [--time={atime,access,use,mtime,modify}] [--date=time]
- [--file=reference-file] [--no-create] [--help] [--version]
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- 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.
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- If changing both the access and modification times to the
- current time, touch can change the timestamps for files
- that the user running it does not own but has write per-
- mission for. Otherwise, the user must own the files.
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- OPTIONS
- -a, --time=atime, --time=access, --time=use
- Change the access time only.
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- -c, --no-create
- Do not create files that do not exist.
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- -d, --date time
- Use time (which can be in various common formats)
- instead of the current time. It can contain month
- names, timezones, `am' and `pm', etc.
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- -f Ignored; for compatibility with BSD versions of
- touch.
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- -m, --time=mtime, --time=modify
- Change the modification time only.
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- -r, --file reference-file
- Use the times of reference-file instead of the cur-
- rent time.
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- -t MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]
- Use the argument (months, days, hours, minutes,
- optional century and years, optional seconds)
- instead of the current time.
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- --help Print a usage message and exit with a non-zero sta-
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- --version
- Print version information on standard error then
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