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This is an old revision of CommandTouch made by DavidLee on 2009-05-31 16:06:44.

 

Command rm


This command is part of the posix extensions and needs to be imported to be available to the shell.
See Posix Commands

Name

touch Creates file or updates timestamp (last mod date) of file.


Synopsis

touch [options] file

Options

-r
-reference reference_file"

Description


If file does not exist, creates a new empty file. Otherwise updates the last modification time of the specified file.
If "-r reference_file" is given, then instead of setting the last mod date to the current time, sets it to the same last mod date of the reference file.

Return Value

Returns 0 if the command executed successfully, 1 if there was an error.

CategoryCommands
CommandsPosix
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