NAME

touch − update date last modified of a file

SYNOPSIS

touch [ −c ] file ... 

DESCRIPTION

Touch attempts to set the modified date of each file.  This is done by reading a character from the file and writing it back. 

If a file does not exist, an attempt will be made to create it unless the −c option is specified. 

EXAMPLE

touch filea fileb

sets the "date last modified" of the two files to the current date. 

SEE ALSO

utime(2)

7th Edition