#touch #date-time #file #timestamp #empty #times #windows-file

app touch-for-windows

A command-line tool to create empty files (for Windows)

2 releases

0.1.1 Sep 20, 2024
0.1.0 Sep 20, 2024

#1242 in Command line utilities

MIT license

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touch-for-windows

A lightweight Windows implementation of Unix's touch command written in Rust. This package is built for Windows specifically, and haven't been tested on other systems.

Install

For users: cargo install touch-for-windows

For nerds:

  1. git clone https://www.github.com/manuelinfosec/touch-for-windows.git
  2. cd touch-for-windows
  3. cargo install --path .

Usage

touch [option] <filename>

Options

option functionality
-a change only the access time of a file
-d, --date specifies the date to use when changing access and/or modification/write time
-m change only the modification/write time of a file
-a change only the access time of a file
--help display help page

Examples

  • Create a file (or update its timestamps if it exists):
    touch my-file.txt

  • Update only the access time:
    touch -a my-file.txt

  • Update only the modification (write) time:
    touch -m my-file.txt

  • Update both access and modification times (default behavior):
    touch -am my-file.txt (same as touch my-file.txt)

  • Touch multiple files at once:
    touch my-file.txt package.json another-file.js

  • Specify a custom date and time:
    touch -d "8/25/2054 6:35:56 AM" my-file.txt

  • Use multiple flags (update both times with a custom date):
    touch -am -d "5/4/2020" my-file.txt

Dependencies

~4–13MB
~145K SLoC