touch(1)                 USER COMMANDS                   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 argu-
     ment 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 creat-
     ing 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 Programmer's Reference Manual.

NOTES
     Users familiar with the BSD environment will find  that  the
     -f  option  is  accepted,  but  ignored.   The  -f option is
     unnecessary since touch will succeed for all files owned  by
     the user regardless of the permissions on the files.



























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