touch

touch: make empty files.

Synopsis

touch file…

Description

touch makes each file that doesn’t exist yet, empty. A file that exists already is left as it is. A file that can’t be made is reported on standard error as touch: reason and the rest are still tried.

Exit status

0 if every file exists afterwards, 1 if any could not be made.

Notes

Unlike GNU touch, it never changes the times of a file that exists (there is no call to set them), and it has no options (-a, -m, -c, -d).

See also

ls(1), mkdir(1), rm(1)