NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONS

--help

Print help information.

-a

change only the access time

-t <STAMP>

use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of the current time

-d, --date <STRING>

parse argument and use it instead of current time

-f

(ignored)

-m

change only the modification time

-c, --no-create

do not create any files

-h, --no-dereference

affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file (only for systems that can change the timestamps of a symlink)

-r, --reference <FILE>

use this file's times instead of the current time

--time <WORD>

change only the specified time: "access", "atime", or "use" are equivalent to -a; "modify" or "mtime" are equivalent to -m

Possible values:

-V, --version

Print version

[files]

VERSION

v(uutils coreutils) 0.11.0