


      TOUCH(1)                    (UNIX 5.0)                   TOUCH(1)



      NAME
           touch - update access and modification times of a file

      SYNTAX
           touch [ -amc ] [ [yy]mmddhhmm ] files

      DESCRIPTION
           Touch causes the access and modification times of each
           argument to be updated.  If no time is specified (see
           date(1)) the current time is used.  The -a and -m options
           cause touch to update only the access or modification times
           respectively (default is -am).  The -c option silently
           prevents touch from creating the file if it did not
           previously exist.

           The return code from touch is the number of files for which
           the times could not be successfully modified (including
           files that did not exist and were not created).

      SEE ALSO
           date(1), utime(2).


































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