touch (Was Re: -since option for ls -lt)

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <712 at ubu.warwick.UUCP>, maujd at warwick.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer) writes:
> [various talking about times and dates of files]
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> NAME
>      touch - update times of last access and  modification  of  a
>      file
> 
> SYSTEM V SYNOPSIS
>      touch [ -c ] [ -a ] [ -m ] [ mmddhhmm[yy] ] filename ...

Just an unrelated tidbit for you folks who can't remember the format
for the date command in set-the-date mode.  On Sys V, touch's usage
message includes the format for the date: it's the same as date's.
I always use "-x", which is an illegal arg, and it looks like:

	touch: illegal option -- x
	usage: touch [-amc] [mmddhhmm[yy]] file ...

Just for fun...
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