touch

touch [OPTIONS] [files]...

Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.

Options

--help

Print help information

--version, -V

Print version information

-a

change only the access time

-t <STAMP>

use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of the current time

--date=<STRING>, -d <STRING>

parse argument and use it instead of current time

-m

change only the modification time

--no-create, -c

do not create any files

--no-dereference, -h

affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file (only for systems that can change the timestamps of a symlink)

--reference=<FILE>, -r <FILE>

use this file's times 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