touch(1) — sys5



TOUCH(1)        DOMAIN/IX Reference Manual (SYS5)        TOUCH(1)



NAME
     touch - update access and modification times of a file

USAGE
     touch [ -amc ] [ mmddhhmm [ yy ] ] files

DESCRIPTION
     Touch updates the access and modification times of each
     argument.  File is created if it does not exist.  If no time
     is specified, the current time is used.

     The return code from touch is the number of files for which
     the times could not be successfully modified (including
     files that did not exist and were not created).

OPTIONS
     -a        Update access time only.

     -m        Update modification time only.

     -c        Silently prevent the creation of file if it did
               not previously exist.

RELATED INFORMATION
     date (1), utime (2).






























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