touch

Options

--help

touch-help-help

-a

touch-help-access

-t <STAMP>

touch-help-timestamp

--date=<STRING>, -d <STRING>

touch-help-date

-f

(ignored)

-m

touch-help-modification

--no-create, -c

touch-help-no-create

--no-dereference, -h

touch-help-no-deref

--reference=<FILE>, -r <FILE>

touch-help-reference

--time=<WORD>

touch-help-time

Examples

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:

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

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}}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.