.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.28..TH TOUCH "1" "July 2002" "touch (fileutils) 4.1.10" "User Commands".SH NAMEtouch \- change file timestamps.SH SYNOPSIS.B touch[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIFILE\fR....SH DESCRIPTION.\" Add any additional description here.PPUpdate the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time..PPMandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too..TP\fB\-a\fRchange only the access time.TP\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-no\-create\fRdo not create any files.TP\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-date\fR=\fISTRING\fRparse STRING and use it instead of current time.TP\fB\-f\fR(ignored).TP\fB\-m\fRchange only the modification time.TP\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-reference\fR=\fIFILE\fRuse this file's times instead of current time.TP\fB\-t\fR STAMPuse [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time.TP\fB\-\-time\fR=\fIWORD\fRset time given by WORD: access atime use (same as \fB\-a\fR)modify mtime (same as \fB\-m\fR).TP\fB\-\-help\fRdisplay this help and exit.TP\fB\-\-version\fRoutput version information and exit.PPNote that the \fB\-d\fR and \fB\-t\fR options accept different time-date formats..SH AUTHORWritten by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith..SH "REPORTING BUGS"Report bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>..SH COPYRIGHTCopyright \(co 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc..brThis is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NOwarranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE..SH "SEE ALSO"The full documentation for.B touchis maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the.B infoand.B touchprograms are properly installed at your site, the command.IP.B info touch.PPshould give you access to the complete manual.