diff --git a/pages/common/touch.md b/pages/common/touch.md index 9ba7657d7..93dd4270e 100644 --- a/pages/common/touch.md +++ b/pages/common/touch.md @@ -1,24 +1,20 @@ # touch -> Change a file access and modification times (atime, mtime). -> More information: . +> Create files and set access/modification times. +> More information: . -- Create a new empty file(s) or change the times for existing file(s) to current time: +- Create specific files: -`touch {{path/to/file}}` +`touch {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}` -- Set the times on a file to a specific date and time: +- 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 -t {{YYYYMMDDHHMM.SS}} {{path/to/file}}` +`touch -c -{{a|m}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}` -- Set the time on a file to one hour in the past: +- Set the file [t]ime to a specific value and don't [c]reate file if it doesn't exist: -`touch -d "{{-1 hour}}" {{path/to/file}}` +`touch -c -t {{YYYYMMDDHHMM.SS}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}` -- Use the times from a file to set the times on a second file: +- 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 -r {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}` - -- Create multiple files: - -`touch {{path/to/file{1,2,3}.txt}}` +`touch -c -r {{~/.emacs}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}`