touchw

Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.10
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 19 June 2026
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NAME

touchw - change file or directory timestamps

SYNOPSIS

WA2LWinTools/lib/[shell/]touchw [ -h | -V ]

touchw [options] (FILE|DIRECTORY)...

options ::= [ -c ] [ -a | -m ] [ -r (FILE|DIRECTORY) | -d "STRING" | -t STAMP ]

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/WinTools

DESCRIPTION

Update the access and modification times of each FILE or DIRECTORY to the current time.

A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty, unless -c is supplied.

OPTIONS

-h

usage message.

-V

print program version.

-a

change only the access time.

-c

do not create any FILESs.

-d "STRING"

parse STRING in the format such as "2004-02-29 16:21:42" and use it instead of current time.

-f

(ignored)

-m

change only the modification time.

-r (FILE|DIRECTORY)

use times of this FILE or DIRECTORY instead of current time.

-t STAMP

use MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss] instead of current time.

ENVIRONMENT

EXIT STATUS

0

no error.

1

error.

4

usage printed.

5

version printed.

FILES

EXAMPLES

NOTES

This manual page is based on the touch(1) manual page written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.

BUGS

AUTHOR

touchw was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

COPYRIGHT

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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Time: 21:36:37 GMT, June 26, 2026