Manual: rust-touch
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NAME
touch - Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.
SYNOPSIS
touch [--help] [-a ] [-t ] [-d|--date] [-f ] [-m ] [-c|--no-create] [-h|--no-dereference] [-r|--reference] [--time]
[-V|--version] [files]
DESCRIPTION
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.
OPTIONS
--help Print help information.
-a change only the access time
-t
use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of the current time
-d, --date
parse argument and use it instead of current time
-f (ignored)
-m change only the modification time
-c, --no-create
do not create any files
-h, --no-dereference
affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file (only for systems that can change the timestamps of a
symlink)
-r, --reference
use this file's times instead of the current time
--time
change only the specified time: "access", "atime", or "use" are equivalent to -a; "modify" or "mtime" are
equivalent to -m
Possible values:
• atime
• mtime
-V, --version
Print version
[files]
VERSION
v(uutils coreutils) 0.8.0
2026-04-16 TOUCH(1)