TOUCH(C)                 XENIX System V                  TOUCH(C)



     Name
          touch - Updates access and modification times of a file.

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

     Description
          touch causes the access and modification times of each
          argument to be updated.  If no time is specified (see
          date(C)) the current time is used.  The first mm refers to
          the month, dd refers to the day, hh refers to the hour, the
          second mm refers to the minute, and yy refers to the year.
          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(C), utime(S)
































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