* Copyright (c) 1988 Regents of the University of California.
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
* provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
* duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation,
* advertising materials, and other materials related to such
* distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed
* by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the
* University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
* from this software without specific prior written permission.
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
* IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
* WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
"@(#) Copyright (c) 1988 Regents of the University of California.\n\
static char sccsid
[] = "@(#)touch.c 4.7 (Berkeley) %G%";
* Attempt to set the modify date of a file to the current date. If the
* file exists, read and write its first character. If the file doesn't
* exist, create it, unless -c option prevents it. If the file is read-only,
* -f forces chmod'ing and touch'ing.
static int dontcreate
; /* set if -c option */
static int force
; /* set if -f option */
dontcreate
= force
= retval
= 0;
while ((ch
= getopt(argc
, argv
, "cf")) != EOF
)
if (stat(filename
, &statbuffer
) == -1) {
return(readwrite(filename
, 0L));
fprintf(stderr
, "touch: %s: does not exist\n", filename
);
if ((statbuffer
.st_mode
& S_IFMT
) != S_IFREG
) {
fprintf(stderr
, "touch: %s: can only touch regular files\n",
if (!access(filename
, R_OK
| W_OK
))
return(readwrite(filename
,statbuffer
.st_size
));
if (chmod(filename
, 0666)) {
fprintf(stderr
, "touch: %s: couldn't chmod: ",
retval
= readwrite(filename
, statbuffer
.st_size
);
if (chmod(filename
, statbuffer
.st_mode
)) {
fprintf(stderr
, "touch: %s: couldn't chmod back: ",
fprintf(stderr
, "touch: %s: cannot touch\n", filename
);
readwrite(filename
, size
)
filedescriptor
= open(filename
, O_RDWR
, 0);
if (filedescriptor
== -1) {
error
: fprintf(stderr
, "touch: %s: ", filename
);
if (read(filedescriptor
, &first
, 1) != 1)
if (lseek(filedescriptor
, 0L, 0) == -1)
if (write(filedescriptor
, &first
, 1) != 1)
filedescriptor
= creat(filename
, 0666);
if (filedescriptor
== -1)
if (close(filedescriptor
) == -1)
fprintf(stderr
, "usage: touch [-cf] file ...\n");