Re: syntax of touch a file

see: perldoc -f utime

$now = time;
utime $now, $now, @filenames;
# and/or/maybe
utime undef, undef, @filenames;
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Re: Re: syntax of touch a file by TVSET (Chaplain) on Dec 13, 2003 at 11:46 UTC
Note, that the difference with the system touch (/usr/bin/touch) is that utime will not create an empty file, if target file does not exist. That is not always needed, but it's good to know. :) Leonid Mamtchenkov aka TVSET	[reply]
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