Comments on: 8 Practical Examples of Linux “Touch” Command

By: jstars

jstars — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 09:14:26 +0000

Can you provide a practical example of why you would want to change file access or modification timestamps?

Michael — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 17:49:30 +0000

In example 6, you forgot to include the MM portion of the timestamp.

CCYYMMDDHHMM

So, 201912311200 would be 12:00 on 12/31/2019, for example.

Ravi Saive — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 06:10:12 +0000

In reply to Shillpa. @Shilpa, You can create 100 text files using touch command as shown.

# touch shilpa{1..100}.txt

The above command will create files in following order.

shilpa1.txt
shilpa2.txt
shilpa3.txt
...

Shillpa — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:37:55 +0000

How to create 100 text files by using single command in Linux

Felix — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 15:51:16 +0000

did you read the other examples ? there you may find plenty of uses which do not involve creating a file.