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touch

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Create files and set access/modification times.

Options (3)

-c, --no-createboolean

Set the file [a]ccess or [m]odification times to the current one and don't create file if it doesn't exist

Example: touch {{[-c|--no-create]}} {{-a|-m}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

-r, --referenceboolean

Set the files' timestamp to the reference file's timestamp, and do not create the file if it does not exist

Example: touch {{[-c|--no-create]}} {{[-r|--reference]}} {{path/to/reference_file}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

-d, --dateboolean

Set the timestamp by parsing a string

Example: touch {{[-d|--date]}} "{{last year|5 hours|next thursday|nov 14|...}}" {{path/to/file}}

Create specific files

touch path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Set the file [a]ccess or [m]odification times to the current one and don't create file if it doesn't exist

touch [-c|--no-create] -a|-m path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Set the file [t]ime to a specific value and don't create file if it doesn't exist

touch [-c|--no-create] -t YYYYMMDDHHMM.SS path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Set the files' timestamp to the reference file's timestamp, and do not create the file if it does not exist

touch [-c|--no-create] [-r|--reference] path/to/reference_file path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Set the timestamp by parsing a string

Create multiple files with an increasing number

touch path/to/file{1..10}

Create multiple files with a letter range

touch path/to/file{a..z}