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Bash touch

Bash command: touch

Change timestamps of files.

touch [options] filename

Creates empty file if not exists or modify times of existing files to current time.

Commonly used options:

• -t change timestamp to specific date ((YYYYMMDDHHMM.SS)) instead of current time.
• -r use timestamp from first file to second file.

Examples:

touch -t YYYYMMDDHHMM.SS filename
touch -r file1 file2

More Information:

• Man pages