.TH touch "" "" Command
.PC "Update modification time of a file"
\fBtouch [ \-c ] \fIfile ...\fR
.PP
.HS
.SH Option:
.IC "\fB\-c\fR"
Do not create \fIfile\fR if it does not exist
.Pp
The shell executes \fBtouch\fR directly.
.HE
\*(OS keeps track of
when each file was last modified.
.B touch
changes the modification time of each
.I file
to the current time, but does not modify its contents.
By default,
.B touch
creates
.I file
if it does not already exist; the
.B \-c
flag suppresses this.
.SH "See Also"
.Xr "commands," commands
.Xr "make" make
