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.TH TOUCH 1
.SH NAME
touch \- update access and modification times of a file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B touch
[
.B \-amc
] [ mmddhhmm[yy] ] files
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Touch\^
causes the access and modification times of each
argument to be updated.
If no time is specified (see
.IR date (1))
the current time is used.
The
.B \-a
and
.B \-m
options cause touch to update only the access or modification
times respectively (default is
.BR \-am ).
The
.B \-c
option silently prevents
.I touch\^
from creating the file if it did not
previously exist.
.PP
The return code from
.I touch\^
is the number of files for which the times could not
be successfully modified
(including files that did not exist and were not created).
.SH SEE ALSO
date(1), utime(2).