tldr/pages/common/touch.md

# touch

> Create files and set access/modification times.
> More information: <https://manned.org/man/freebsd-13.1/touch>.

- Create specific files:

`touch {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}`

- Set the file [a]ccess or [m]odification times to the current one and don't [c]reate file if it doesn't exist:

`touch -c -{{a|m}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}`

- Set the file [t]ime to a specific value and don't [c]reate file if it doesn't exist:

`touch -c -t {{YYYYMMDDHHMM.SS}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}`

- Set the file time of a specific file to the time of anothe[r] file and don't [c]reate file if it doesn't exist:

`touch -c -r {{~/.emacs}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}`