NAME

touch − update date last modified of a file

SYNOPSIS

touch [ −c ] file ... 

DESCRIPTION

Touch attempts to set the modified date of each file by reading a character from the file and writing it back. 

If a file does not exist, an attempt is made to create a file unless the −c option is specified. 

SEE ALSO

utime(2)

November 02, 1983  —  %W%%Q%%Y%