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touch(1) | General Commands Manual | touch(1) |
NAME¶
touch - Update the access and modification times of each `FILE` to the current time.
SYNOPSIS¶
touch [--help] [-a ] [-t ] [-d|--date] [-m ] [-c|--no-create] [-h|--no-dereference] [-r|--reference] [--time] [-V|--version] [files]
DESCRIPTION¶
Update the access and modification times of each `FILE` to the current time.
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
- -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
- [files]
VERSION¶
v0.0.27
touch 0.0.27 |