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Manual Reference Pages  - TOUCH (1)

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touch - change file timestamps

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touch [OPTION]... FILE...

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.

Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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.

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