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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 of
     the named files.  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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