Linux and Unix Shell Programming

touch

Format:

touch options filename 

Option:

-t MMDDhhmm

Create a file with a month, day, hour, minute, date stamp

This creates a file with a current or new date stamp.

					$ touch myfile 
$ ls -l myfile 
-rw-r--r-- 1 dave    admin            0 Jun 30 09:59 myfile
				

The above creates a new empty file with today’s date/time called myfile.

					$ touch -t 06100930 myfile2 
$ ls -l myfile2 
-rw-r--r-- 1 dave       admin            0 Jun 10 09:30 myfile2
				

The above creates a new empty file called myfile2 with the date stamp of June 10 at 09:30am.