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TOUCH(1B)							     TOUCH(1B)

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 cur‐
       rent 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)

				 Oct 26, 1995			     TOUCH(1B)

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