1 /* touch -- change modification and access times of files
2 Copyright (C) 87, 1989-1991, 1995-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
18 /* Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie,
24 #include <sys/types.h>
31 #include "safe-read.h"
33 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
34 #define PROGRAM_NAME "touch"
37 "Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith"
43 /* Bitmasks for `change_times'. */
47 /* The name by which this program was run. */
50 /* Which timestamps to change. */
51 static int change_times
;
53 /* (-c) If nonzero, don't create if not already there. */
56 /* (-d) If nonzero, date supplied on command line in get_date formats. */
57 static int flexible_date
;
59 /* (-r) If nonzero, use times from a reference file. */
62 /* (-t) If nonzero, date supplied on command line in POSIX format. */
63 static int posix_date
;
65 /* If nonzero, the only thing we have to do is change both the
66 modification and access time to the current time, so we don't
67 have to own the file, just be able to read and write it.
68 On some systems, we can do this if we own the file, even though
69 we have neither read nor write access to it. */
70 static int amtime_now
;
72 /* New time to use when setting time. */
73 static time_t newtime
;
75 /* File to use for -r. */
76 static char *ref_file
;
78 /* Info about the reference file. */
79 static struct stat ref_stats
;
81 static struct option
const longopts
[] =
83 {"time", required_argument
, 0, CHAR_MAX
+ 1},
84 {"no-create", no_argument
, 0, 'c'},
85 {"date", required_argument
, 0, 'd'},
86 {"file", required_argument
, 0, 'r'}, /* FIXME: phase out --file */
87 {"reference", required_argument
, 0, 'r'},
88 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
89 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
93 /* Valid arguments to the `--time' option. */
94 static char const* const time_args
[] =
96 "atime", "access", "use", "mtime", "modify", 0
99 /* The bits in `change_times' that those arguments set. */
100 static int const time_masks
[] =
102 CH_ATIME
, CH_ATIME
, CH_ATIME
, CH_MTIME
, CH_MTIME
105 /* Update the time of file FILE according to the options given.
106 Return 0 if successful, 1 if an error occurs. */
109 touch (const char *file
)
117 /* Try to open FILE, creating it if necessary. */
118 fd
= open (file
, O_WRONLY
| O_CREAT
,
119 S_IRUSR
| S_IWUSR
| S_IRGRP
| S_IWGRP
| S_IROTH
| S_IWOTH
);
124 /* We're setting only one of the time values. stat the target to get
125 the other one. If we have the file descriptor already, use fstat.
126 Otherwise, either we're in no-create mode (and hence didn't call open)
127 or FILE is inaccessible or a directory, so we have to use stat. */
128 if (fd
!= -1 ? fstat (fd
, &sbuf
) : stat (file
, &sbuf
))
130 error (0, errno
, "%s", file
);
136 if (fd
!= -1 && close (fd
) < 0)
138 error (0, errno
, "%s", file
);
144 /* Pass NULL to utime so it will not fail if we just have
145 write access to the file, but don't own it. */
146 status
= utime (file
, NULL
);
152 /* There's currently no interface to set file timestamps with
153 better than 1-second resolution, so discard any fractional
154 part of the source timestamp. */
158 utb
.actime
= ref_stats
.st_atime
;
159 utb
.modtime
= ref_stats
.st_mtime
;
162 utb
.actime
= utb
.modtime
= newtime
;
164 if (!(change_times
& CH_ATIME
))
165 utb
.actime
= sbuf
.st_atime
;
167 if (!(change_times
& CH_MTIME
))
168 utb
.modtime
= sbuf
.st_mtime
;
170 status
= utime (file
, &utb
);
175 error (0, errno
, "%s", file
);
186 fprintf (stderr
, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
190 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name
);
191 printf (_(" or : %s [-acm] MMDDhhmm[YY] FILE... (obsolescent)\n"),
194 Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.\n\
196 -a change only the access time\n\
197 -c, --no-create do not create any files\n\
198 -d, --date=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time\n\
200 -m change only the modification time\n\
201 -r, --reference=FILE use this file's times instead of current time\n\
202 -t STAMP use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time\n\
203 --time=WORD set time given by WORD: access atime use (same as -a)\n\
204 modify mtime (same as -m)\n\
205 --help display this help and exit\n\
206 --version output version information and exit\n\
208 Note that the three time-date formats recognized for the -d and -t options\n\
209 and for the obsolescent argument are all different.\n\
211 puts (_("\nReport bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>."));
218 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
224 program_name
= argv
[0];
225 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
226 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
227 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
229 change_times
= no_create
= use_ref
= posix_date
= flexible_date
= 0;
230 newtime
= (time_t) -1;
232 while ((c
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "acd:fmr:t:", longopts
, NULL
)) != -1)
240 change_times
|= CH_ATIME
;
249 newtime
= get_date (optarg
, NULL
);
250 if (newtime
== (time_t) -1)
251 error (1, 0, _("invalid date format `%s'"), optarg
);
259 change_times
|= CH_MTIME
;
269 newtime
= posixtime (optarg
,
270 PDS_LEADING_YEAR
| PDS_CENTURY
| PDS_SECONDS
);
271 if (newtime
== (time_t) -1)
272 error (1, 0, _("invalid date format `%s'"), optarg
);
276 case CHAR_MAX
+ 1: /* --time */
277 change_times
|= XARGMATCH ("--time", optarg
,
278 time_args
, time_masks
);
281 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
283 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
290 if (change_times
== 0)
291 change_times
= CH_ATIME
| CH_MTIME
;
293 if ((use_ref
&& (posix_date
|| flexible_date
))
294 || (posix_date
&& flexible_date
))
296 error (0, 0, _("cannot specify times from more than one source"));
302 if (stat (ref_file
, &ref_stats
))
303 error (1, errno
, "%s", ref_file
);
307 if (!date_set
&& optind
< argc
&& !STREQ (argv
[optind
- 1], "--"))
309 newtime
= posixtime (argv
[optind
], PDS_TRAILING_YEAR
);
310 if (newtime
!= (time_t) -1)
318 if ((change_times
& (CH_ATIME
| CH_MTIME
)) == (CH_ATIME
| CH_MTIME
))
326 error (0, 0, _("file arguments missing"));
330 for (; optind
< argc
; ++optind
)
331 err
+= touch (argv
[optind
]);