touch

Name

touch -- change file access and modification times

Description

The specification for "touch" is as specified in the SUS but with the following differences as listed below.

Differences

--no-create

equivalent to the -c option

-d, --date=STRING

parse STRING and use it instead of current time

--reference=FILE

equivalent to the -r option

--time=WORD

set time given by WORD: access atime use (same as -a) modify mtime (same as -m)

--version

output version information and exit