touch man page on Ultrix

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touch(1)							      touch(1)

Name
       touch - update access and modification times of a file

Syntax
       touch [ -amcf ] [ mmddhhmm[yy] ] files

Description
       The  command  causes the access and modification times of each argument
       to be updated.  The file name is created if it does not already	exist.
       If no time is specified, the current time is used.  For a more detailed
       explanation of how to specify the date and time, see

       The return code from is the number of files for which the  times	 could
       not  be	successfully  modified, including files that did not exist and
       were not created.  This utility runs under the SYSTEM_FIVE environment.

Options
       -a   Causes to update the access time.

       -c   Prevents from creating the file if it did not previously exist.

       -f   Attempts to force the touch in spite of read  and  write  restric‐
	    tions on a file.

       -m   Causes to update the modification time.

       Note that the default setting for the command is -am.

See Also
       date(1), utime(2)

								      touch(1)

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