touch(1b) - osol9

1touch(1B)          SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands          touch(1B)
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NAME

6       touch - change file access and modification times
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SYNOPSIS

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

13       touch  sets  the access and modification times of each file to the cur‐
14       rent time. file is created if it does not already exist.
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OPTIONS

17       -a    Change the access time of file. Do not  change  the  modification
18             time unless -m is also specified.
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21       -c    Do not create file if it does not exist.
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24       -f    Attempt to force the touch in spite of read and write permissions
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USAGE

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

37       The following exit values are returned:
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39       0     touch executed successfully and all requested changes were made.
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42       >0    An error occurred. touch returns the number of  files  for  which
43             the times could not be successfully modified.
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ATTRIBUTES

47       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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52       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
53       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
54       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
55       │Availability                 │SUNWscpu                     │
56       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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