touch
touch(path::AbstractString)
Update the last-modified timestamp on a file to the current time.
Examples
In the Julia programming language, the function touch(path::AbstractString) is used to update the last-modified timestamp of a file to the current time.
julia> touch("myfile.txt")This example updates the last-modified timestamp of the file "myfile.txt" to the current time.
Common mistake example:
julia> touch("nonexistent_file.txt")
ERROR: SystemError: opening file "nonexistent_file.txt": No such file or directoryIn this example, the function fails because the specified file does not exist. It's important to ensure that the file exists before using touch.
See Also
abspath, basename, chmod, countlines, cp, ctime, dirname, download, evalfile, expanduser, fdio, filemode, filesize, functionloc, gperm, homedir, include_string, isabspath, isblockdev, ischardev, isdir, isdirpath, isexecutable, isfifo, isfile, islink, ismount, ispath, isreadable, issetgid, issetuid, issticky, iswritable, joinpath, less, lstat, mkdir, mkpath, mktemp, mktempdir, mtime, mv, normpath, operm, poll_fd, poll_file, readall, readcsv, readdir, readdlm, readlines, readlink, realpath, relpath, rm, splitdir, splitdrive, splitext, stat, symlink, tempdir, tempname, touch, truncate, uperm, watch_file, writecsv,User Contributed Notes
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