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 TOUCH 1B "Oct 26, 1995"
 NAME
touch - change file access and modification times
 SYNOPSIS

/usr/ucb/touch [-acfm] file...


 DESCRIPTION

touch sets the access and modification times of each file to the current
time. file is created if it does not already exist.
 OPTIONS
-a

Change the access time of file. Do not change the modification time
unless -m is also specified.


-c

Do not create file if it does not exist.


-f

Attempt to force the touch in spite of read and write permissions on
file.


-m

Change the modification time of file. Do not change the access time
unless -a is also specified.


 USAGE

See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of touch when
encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
 EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:
0

touch executed successfully and all requested changes were made.


>0

An error occurred. touch returns the number of files for which the times
could not be successfully modified.


 SEE ALSO

touch(1), attributes(5), largefile(5)