Linux and Unix touch command tutorial with examples

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What is the touch command in UNIX? ¶ The touch command is a command line utility to update timestamps on files. UNIX and UNIX like operating systems store timestamp information for each file or folder including access time, modify time and change time. It is possible to modify timestamps using the touch command either to update a timestamp to the current time or to modify it to a date in the past.

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