TOUCH(1)                             SysV                             TOUCH(1)



NAME
     touch - update access and modification times of a file

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

DESCRIPTION
     touch causes the access and modification times of each argument to be
     updated.  The file name is created if it does not exist.  If no time is
     specified (see date(1)) the current time is used.  The -a and -m options
     cause touch to update only the access or modification times respectively
     (default is -am).  The -c option silently prevents touch from creating
     the file if it did not previously exist.

     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).

SEE ALSO
     date(1).
     utime(2) in the SysV Programmer's Reference.