Usage: /usr/bin/touch [OPTION]... FILE... Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time. A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty, unless -c or -h is supplied. A FILE argument string of - is handled specially and causes touch to change the times of the file associated with standard output. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -a change only the access time -c, --no-create do not create any files -d, --date=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time -f (ignored) -h, --no-dereference affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file; useful only on systems that can change the timestamps of a symlink -m change only the modification time -r, --reference=FILE use this file's times instead of current time -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] use specified time instead of current time, with a date-time format that differs from -d's --time=WORD specify which time to change: access time (-a): 'access', 'atime', 'use'; modification time (-m): 'modify', 'mtime' --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit Report bugs to: . GNU coreutils home page: General help using GNU software: Full documentation or available locally via: info '(coreutils) touch invocation'