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6 .TH TOUCH 1B "Oct 26, 1995"
8 touch \- change file access and modification times
12 \fB/usr/ucb/touch\fR [\fB-acfm\fR] \fIfile\fR...
18 \fBtouch\fR sets the access and modification times of each file to the current
19 time. \fBfile\fR is created if it does not already exist.
27 Change the access time of \fBfile\fR. Do not change the modification time
28 unless \fB-m\fR is also specified.
37 Do not create \fBfile\fR if it does not exist.
46 Attempt to force the touch in spite of read and write permissions on
56 Change the modification time of \fBfile\fR. Do not change the access time
57 unless \fB-a\fR is also specified.
63 See \fBlargefile\fR(5) for the description of the behavior of \fBtouch\fR when
64 encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
68 The following exit values are returned:
75 \fBtouch\fR executed successfully and all requested changes were made.
84 An error occurred. \fBtouch\fR returns the number of files for which the times
85 could not be successfully modified.
91 \fBtouch\fR(1), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBlargefile\fR(5)