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TOUCH(1)		     General Commands Manual			TOUCH(1)

NAME
     touch - set modification date of a file

SYNOPSIS
     touch [ -c ] [ -t time ] file ...

DESCRIPTION
     Touch  attempts  to  set the modification time of the files to time (by de-
     fault, the current time).	If a file does not exist, it will be created un-
     less option -c is present.

SOURCE
     /src/cmd/touch.c

SEE ALSO
     ls((1)), stat((3)), chmod((1))

BUGS
     Touch will not touch directories.

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