touch - touch

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  Arguments:  OPTIONS 

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NAME

touch − touch

SYNOPSIS

touch [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.

Arguments:

[files]...

OPTIONS

	−−help		Print help information.
	−a		change only the access time

−t <STAMP>

use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of the current time

−d, −−date <STRING>

parse argument and use it instead of current time

	−f		(ignored)
	−m		change only the modification time

−c, −−no−create

do not create any files

−h, −−no−dereference

affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file (only for systems that can change the timestamps of a symlink)

−r, −−reference <FILE>

use this file’s times instead of the current time

−−time <WORD>

change only the specified time: "access", "atime", or "use" are equivalent to −a; "modify" or "mtime" are equivalent to −m [possible values: atime, mtime]

−V, −−version

Print version

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