Yeah, and my apologies about asking about touch before doing man touch. I did that right after I hit the send button and felt awfully foolish, though the replies I got on the list from matt and robert sure made a nice companion to somewhat sparse man page! Thanks, Nick On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 11:14:10 -0400 Ron Cordell <roncordell@atl.mediaone.net> wrote:

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Er. "touch"? I'm lost here. what be this touch?

Thanks! Nick

touch updates the timestamp and access information for a file.

Try man touch for more information...

-ronc

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