TOUCH (1) manpage
NAME touch - change file timestamps
SYNOPSIS touch [OPTION ]... FILE ...
DESCRIPTION
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a
change only the access time
-c , --no-create
do not create any files
-d , --date = STRING
parse STRING and use it instead of current time
-f
(ignored)
-m
change only the modification time
-r , --reference = FILE
use this file's times instead of current time
-t STAMP
use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time
--time = WORD
set time given by WORD: access atime use (same as -a )
modify mtime (same as -m )
--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.
AUTHOR Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.
REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
SEE ALSO The full documentation for
touch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info and
touch programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils touch
should give you access to the complete manual.
