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