Options: noop verbose

Updates modification time (mtime) and access time (atime) of file(s) in list. Files are created if they don’t exist.

FileUtils.touch 'timestamp'
FileUtils.touch Dir.glob('*.c');  system 'make'

Source Code

# File fileutils.rb, line 1017
def touch(list, options = {})
  fu_check_options options, OPT_TABLE['touch']
  list = fu_list(list)
  created = nocreate = options[:nocreate]
  t = options[:mtime]
  if options[:verbose]
    fu_output_message "touch #{nocreate ? ' -c' : ''}#{t ? t.strftime(' -t %Y%m%d%H%M.%S') : ''}#{list.join ' '}"
  end
  return if options[:noop]
  list.each do |path|
    created = nocreate
    begin
      File.utime(t, t, path)
    rescue Errno::ENOENT
      raise if created
      File.open(path, 'a') {
        ;
      }
      created = true
      retry if t
    end
  end
end