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The 'touch' command is used to update the access and modification timestamps of files in Unix-like operating systems. It can create empty files if they do not exist and offers various options to modify specific timestamps or use a specified date. The command is part of the GNU coreutils package and is governed by the GPLv3 license.

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Help Touch

The 'touch' command is used to update the access and modification timestamps of files in Unix-like operating systems. It can create empty files if they do not exist and offers various options to modify specific timestamps or use a specified date. The command is part of the GNU coreutils package and is governed by the GPLv3 license.

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TOUCH(1) User Commands

TOUCH(1)

NAME
touch - change file timestamps

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

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

A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty, unless -c or -h is


sup‐
plied.

A FILE argument string of - is handled specially and causes touch to change


the
times of the file associated with standard output.

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)

-h, --no-dereference
affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file (useful
only on
systems that can change the timestamps of a symlink)

-m change only the modification time

-r, --reference=FILE
use this file's times instead of current time

-t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss]
use specified time instead of current time, with a date-time format
that
differs from -d's

--time=WORD
specify which time to change: access time (-a): 'access', 'atime',
'use';
modification time (-m): 'modify', 'mtime'

--help display this help and exit

--version
output version information and exit

DATE STRING
The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string
such as
"Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or even "next
Thurs‐
day". A date string may contain items indicating calendar date, time of
day,
time zone, day of week, relative time, relative date, and numbers. An
empty
string indicates the beginning of the day. The date string format is more
com‐
plex than is easily documented here but is fully described in the info
documenta‐
tion.

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

REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL
version
3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There
is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/touch>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) touch invocation'

GNU coreutils 9.5 October 2024


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