touch (1)

NAME

touch - set modification date of a file

SYNOPSIS

touch [ -c ] [ -t time ] file ...

DESCRIPTION

Touch attempts to set the modification time of the files to time (by default, the current time). If a file does not exist, it will be created unless option -c is present.

SOURCE

/src/cmd/touch.c

SEE ALSO

ls(1), stat(3), chmod(1)

BUGS

Touch will not touch directories.