TOUCH(1-SysV)       RISC/os Reference Manual        TOUCH(1-SysV)



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.

































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