S6-TOUCH(1)

💖 S6-TOUCH(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the s6-touch(1) page — it lives in the General Commands Manual and it is lowkey iconic. It’s a tiny little tool with big main character energy, and we’re gonna get into it. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

s6-touch — this one changes the modification and access times of a file, and it creates the file if it does not exist. Slay. 🎀

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

s6-touch file

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the whole move is literally this: s6-touch touches every file in the list by opening them for appending and then closing them. That’s it. Open for appending, close, done. No cap. 💅

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• 111 — temporary error. Not a forever thing, bestie; just a temporary oops. 😭
• 100 — permanent error, such as a misuse. Like, the kind of thing where you gotta fix how you called it.
• 127 — unable to execute program - not found.
• 126 — unable to execute program - other reason.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go check out the whole s6 bestie lineup: s6-basename(1), s6-cat(1), s6-chmod(1), s6-chown(1), s6-clock(1), s6-cut(1), s6-dirname(1), s6-dumpenv(1), s6-echo(1), s6-env(1), s6-expr(1), s6-false(1), s6-format-filter(1), s6-grep(1), s6-head(1), s6-hiercopy(1), s6-linkname(1), s6-ln(1), s6-ls(1), s6-maximumtime(1), s6-mkdir(1), s6-mkfifo(1), s6-nice(1), s6-nuke(1), s6-pause(1), s6-printenv(1), s6-quote(1), s6-quote-filter(1), s6-rename(1), s6-rmrf(1), s6-seq(1), s6-sleep(1), s6-sort(1), s6-sync(1), s6-tai64ndiff(1), s6-tail(1), s6-true(1), s6-uniquename(1), s6-unquote(1), s6-unquote-filter(1), s6-update-symlinks(1), seekablepipe(1).

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/touch.html

This man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-touch.html

🧚 STANDARDS 🧚

s6-touch is not suitable as a touch[1] program conforming to . 💀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Laurent Bercot
• Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)

💖 cute sign-off tea: source/version is Debian, and the date is April 18, 2022. S6-TOUCH(1) out — byeee! 🎀