touch(1)                            CLIX                            touch(1)



  NAME

    touch - Updates access and modification times of a file

  SYNOPSIS

    touch [-amc] [mmddhhmm[yy]] file ...

  FLAGS

    -a   Updates the access time only.

    -m   Updates the modification time only.

    -c   Does not create this time if it does not exist.

  DESCRIPTION

    The touch command causes the access and modification times of each
    argument to be updated.  The filename is created if it does not exist.  If
    no time is specified (see date) the current time is used.  The -a and -m
    flags cause touch to update only the access or modification times
    respectively (default is -am).  The -c flag silently prevents touch from
    creating the file if it did not previously exist.

  EXAMPLES

    To update the access and modification of kitty.dat, if it exists, while
    not creating it if it does not exist:

    touch -c kitty.dat


  DIAGNOSTICS

    date: bad conversion
           The touch command cannot convert the date/time the user has
           entered.

    touch: cannot stat
           The specified file does not exist or the user does not have
           permission for the file.

    touch: cannot change times
           The touch command is unable to change the times on the file.

  EXIT VALUES

    The exit code for 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).



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  touch(1)                            CLIX                            touch(1)



  RELATED INFORMATION

    Commands: date(1)

    Functions: utime(2)

















































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