touch(1)

💖 NAME 💖

touch — updates the access and modification times of each FILE to right now, bestie. The current time. Periodt.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

touch [--help] [-a ] [-t ] [-d|--date] [-f ] [-m ] [-c|--no-create]
[-h|--no-dereference] [-r|--reference] [--time] [-V|--version] [files]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so picture this: every file has two lil timestamps living inside it — when you last looked at it (access) and when you last changed it (modification). touch walks up and sets both of those to the current time. That's it. That's the whole vibe. 🦋

It updates the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time. No cap.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --help — prints help info for you, because we all need a lil support sometimes 💅
• -a — change only the access time. Just the access one. Nothing else.
• -t <STAMP> — instead of the current time, use the stamp you hand it, formatted as [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss]
• -d, --date <STRING> — parses the argument and uses that instead of the current time
• -f — (ignored) 🙈 it's just there, chilling. Does nothing.
• -m — change only the modification time
• -c, --no-create — do not create any files
• -h, --no-dereference — affect each symbolic link itself instead of whatever file it points to (only on systems that can actually change the timestamps of a symlink, iykyk)
• -r, --reference <FILE> — steal this file's times and use them instead of the current time 👑
• --time <WORD> — change only the specified time: "access", "atime", or "use" are equivalent to -a; "modify" or "mtime" are equivalent to -m

Possible values:

• atime
• mtime

• -V, --version — print version
• [files]

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

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And that's the whole page, bestie — you're officially a touch girly now. 🌈💜

This lil masterpiece is from touch (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0, and yeah, touch(1) is its manual page home. Go forth and timestamp things. Slay. 💖✨