touch

Overview ¶

touch changes file access and modification times.

Synopsis:

touch [-amc] [-d datetime] file...

Description:

If a file does not exist, it will be created unless -c is specified.

Options:

-a: change only the access time
-m: change only the modification time
-c: do not create any file if it does not exist
-d: use specified time instead of current time (RFC3339 format)