NAME

touch − set modification date of a file

SYNOPSIS

­touch [ ­-c ] [ ­-t ­time ] ­file ... 

DESCRIPTION

­Touch attempts to set the modification time of the ­files to ­time (by default, the current time).  If a ­file does not exist, it will be created unless option ­-c is present. 

SOURCE

­/sys/src/cmd/touch.c

SEE ALSO

ls(1), stat(2), chmod(1)

BUGS

­Touch will not touch directories. 

Plan 9  —  April 09, 2002