TOUCH(1B) BSD Compatibility Package Commands TOUCH(1B)

NAME

touch - change file access and modification times

SYNOPSIS

/usr/ucb/touch [-acfm] file...

DESCRIPTION

touch sets the access and modification times of each file to the
current time. file is created if it does not already exist.

OPTIONS

-a
Change the access time of file. Do not change the modification
time unless -m is also specified.


-c
Do not create file if it does not exist.


-f
Attempt to force the touch in spite of read and write
permissions on file.


-m
Change the modification time of file. Do not change the access
time unless -a is also specified.

USAGE

See largefile(7) for the description of the behavior of touch when
encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

0
touch executed successfully and all requested changes were
made.


>0
An error occurred. touch returns the number of files for which
the times could not be successfully modified.

SEE ALSO

touch(1), attributes(7), largefile(7)

October 26, 1995 TOUCH(1B)