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.

     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 [C]Y]MDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time

     --time=WORD
          change the specified time:  WORD is access,  atime,  or
          use:   equivalent  to  -a  WORD  is  modify  or  mtime:
          equivalent to -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.

     If a FILE is -, touch standard output.

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





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User Commands                                            TOUCH(1)



REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright O 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This is free software.  You may redistribute  copies  of  it
     under   the   terms   of  the  GNU  General  Public  License
     .  There  is  NO  WAR-
     RANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
     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 touch

     should give you access to the complete manual.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     
       ATRIBUTE TYPE      ATRIBUTE VALUE  
    
     Availability         SUNWgnu-coreutils 
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted       
    

NOTES
     Source    for    GNU    coreutils    is     available     on
     http:/opensolaris.org.





















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