1 /* touch -- change modification and access times of files
2 Copyright (C) 87, 1989-1991, 1995-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
18 /* Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie,
24 #include <sys/types.h>
31 #include "safe-read.h"
33 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
34 #define PROGRAM_NAME "touch"
37 "Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith"
43 /* Bitmasks for `change_times'. */
51 #if !defined O_NONBLOCK
52 # define O_NONBLOCK O_NDELAY
59 /* The name by which this program was run. */
62 /* Which timestamps to change. */
63 static int change_times;
65 /* (-c) If nonzero, don't create if not already there. */
68 /* (-d) If nonzero, date supplied on command line in get_date formats. */
69 static int flexible_date;
71 /* (-r) If nonzero, use times from a reference file. */
74 /* (-t) If nonzero, date supplied on command line in POSIX format. */
75 static int posix_date;
77 /* If nonzero, the only thing we have to do is change both the
78 modification and access time to the current time, so we don't
79 have to own the file, just be able to read and write it.
80 On some systems, we can do this if we own the file, even though
81 we have neither read nor write access to it. */
82 static int amtime_now;
84 /* New time to use when setting time. */
85 static time_t newtime;
87 /* File to use for -r. */
88 static char *ref_file;
90 /* Info about the reference file. */
91 static struct stat ref_stats;
93 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
94 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
97 TIME_OPTION = CHAR_MAX + 1
100 static struct option const longopts[] =
102 {"time", required_argument, 0, TIME_OPTION},
103 {"no-create", no_argument, 0, 'c'},
104 {"date", required_argument, 0, 'd'},
105 {"file", required_argument, 0, 'r'}, /* FIXME: phase out --file */
106 {"reference", required_argument, 0, 'r'},
107 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
108 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
112 /* Valid arguments to the `--time' option. */
113 static char const* const time_args[] =
115 "atime", "access", "use", "mtime", "modify", 0
118 /* The bits in `change_times' that those arguments set. */
119 static int const time_masks[] =
121 CH_ATIME, CH_ATIME, CH_ATIME, CH_MTIME, CH_MTIME
124 /* Update the time of file FILE according to the options given.
125 Return 0 if successful, 1 if an error occurs. */
128 touch (const char *file)
137 /* Try to open FILE, creating it if necessary. */
138 fd = open (file, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_NONBLOCK | O_NOCTTY,
139 S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP | S_IROTH | S_IWOTH);
146 /* We're setting only one of the time values. stat the target to get
147 the other one. If we have the file descriptor already, use fstat.
148 Otherwise, either we're in no-create mode (and hence didn't call open)
149 or FILE is inaccessible or a directory, so we have to use stat. */
150 if (fd != -1 ? fstat (fd, &sbuf) : stat (file, &sbuf))
152 error (0, open_errno ? open_errno : errno, "%s", file);
158 if (fd != -1 && close (fd) < 0)
160 error (0, errno, "%s", file);
166 /* Pass NULL to utime so it will not fail if we just have
167 write access to the file, but don't own it. */
168 status = utime (file, NULL);
174 /* There's currently no interface to set file timestamps with
175 better than 1-second resolution, so discard any fractional
176 part of the source timestamp. */
180 utb.actime = ref_stats.st_atime;
181 utb.modtime = ref_stats.st_mtime;
184 utb.actime = utb.modtime = newtime;
186 if (!(change_times & CH_ATIME))
187 utb.actime = sbuf.st_atime;
189 if (!(change_times & CH_MTIME))
190 utb.modtime = sbuf.st_mtime;
192 status = utime (file, &utb);
197 error (0, open_errno ? open_errno : errno, "%s", file);
208 fprintf (stderr, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
212 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name);
213 printf (_(" or : %s [-acm] MMDDhhmm[YY] FILE... (obsolescent)\n"),
216 Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.\n\
218 -a change only the access time\n\
219 -c, --no-create do not create any files\n\
220 -d, --date=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time\n\
222 -m change only the modification time\n\
223 -r, --reference=FILE use this file's times instead of current time\n\
224 -t STAMP use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time\n\
225 --time=WORD set time given by WORD: access atime use (same as -a)\n\
226 modify mtime (same as -m)\n\
227 --help display this help and exit\n\
228 --version output version information and exit\n\
230 Note that the three time-date formats recognized for the -d and -t options\n\
231 and for the obsolescent argument are all different.\n\
233 puts (_("\nReport bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>."));
240 main (int argc, char **argv)
246 program_name = argv[0];
247 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
248 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
249 textdomain (PACKAGE);
251 change_times = no_create = use_ref = posix_date = flexible_date = 0;
252 newtime = (time_t) -1;
254 while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "acd:fmr:t:", longopts, NULL)) != -1)
262 change_times |= CH_ATIME;
271 newtime = get_date (optarg, NULL);
272 if (newtime == (time_t) -1)
273 error (1, 0, _("invalid date format `%s'"), optarg);
281 change_times |= CH_MTIME;
291 newtime = posixtime (optarg,
292 PDS_LEADING_YEAR | PDS_CENTURY | PDS_SECONDS);
293 if (newtime == (time_t) -1)
294 error (1, 0, _("invalid date format `%s'"), optarg);
298 case TIME_OPTION: /* --time */
299 change_times |= XARGMATCH ("--time", optarg,
300 time_args, time_masks);
303 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
305 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS);
312 if (change_times == 0)
313 change_times = CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME;
315 if ((use_ref && (posix_date || flexible_date))
316 || (posix_date && flexible_date))
318 error (0, 0, _("cannot specify times from more than one source"));
324 if (stat (ref_file, &ref_stats))
325 error (1, errno, "%s", ref_file);
329 if (!date_set && optind < argc && !STREQ (argv[optind - 1], "--"))
331 newtime = posixtime (argv[optind], PDS_TRAILING_YEAR);
332 if (newtime != (time_t) -1)
340 if ((change_times & (CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME)) == (CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME))
348 error (0, 0, _("file arguments missing"));
352 for (; optind < argc; ++optind)
353 err += touch (argv[optind]);