1 /* touch -- change modification and access times of files
2 Copyright (C) 87, 1989-1991, 1995-1999 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"
45 /* Bitmasks for `change_times'. */
49 /* The name by which this program was run. */
52 /* Which timestamps to change. */
53 static int change_times;
55 /* (-c) If nonzero, don't create if not already there. */
58 /* (-d) If nonzero, date supplied on command line in get_date formats. */
59 static int flexible_date;
61 /* (-r) If nonzero, use times from a reference file. */
64 /* (-t) If nonzero, date supplied on command line in POSIX format. */
65 static int posix_date;
67 /* If nonzero, the only thing we have to do is change both the
68 modification and access time to the current time, so we don't
69 have to own the file, just be able to read and write it. */
70 static int amtime_now;
72 /* New time to use when setting time. */
73 static time_t newtime;
75 /* File to use for -r. */
76 static char *ref_file;
78 /* Info about the reference file. */
79 static struct stat ref_stats;
81 static struct option const longopts[] =
83 {"time", required_argument, 0, CHAR_MAX + 1},
84 {"no-create", no_argument, 0, 'c'},
85 {"date", required_argument, 0, 'd'},
86 {"file", required_argument, 0, 'r'}, /* FIXME: phase out --file */
87 {"reference", required_argument, 0, 'r'},
88 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
89 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
93 /* Valid arguments to the `--time' option. */
94 static char const* const time_args[] =
96 "atime", "access", "use", "mtime", "modify", 0
99 /* The bits in `change_times' that those arguments set. */
100 static int const time_masks[] =
102 CH_ATIME, CH_ATIME, CH_ATIME, CH_MTIME, CH_MTIME
105 /* Open FILE, possibly creating it. Set *FILE_CREATED to nonzero if the
106 open creates it, or to zero if the open call opened an existing file.
107 Return the result of the open call. Be careful to avoid race conditions. */
110 open_maybe_create (const char *file, int *file_created)
117 /* First, see if we can create a new FILE. */
118 fd = open (file, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL,
119 S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP | S_IROTH | S_IWOTH);
123 /* If the open succeeded or if it failed for any reason other
124 than the existence of FILE, then we're done. Some systems
125 (solaris) set errno to EINVAL when FILE is a directory. */
126 if (fd != -1 || (errno != EEXIST && errno != EINVAL))
129 /* The first open failed because FILE already exists.
130 Now try to open it for writing. */
131 fd = open (file, O_WRONLY);
133 /* If the open succeeded or if it failed for any reason other
134 than the absence of FILE, then we're done. */
135 /* The 2nd open can fail if FILE was unlinked between the two
136 open calls. When that happens, just iterate. */
137 if (fd != -1 || errno != ENOENT)
144 /* Update the time of file FILE according to the options given.
145 Return 0 if successful, 1 if an error occurs. */
148 touch (const char *file)
157 /* Try to open an existing FILE. */
158 fd = open (file, O_WRONLY);
159 if (fd == -1 && errno == ENOENT)
161 /* FILE doesn't exist. So we're done. */
168 /* Try to open FILE, creating it if necessary. */
169 fd = open_maybe_create (file, &file_created);
172 /* Don't fail if the open failed because FILE is a directory. */
174 /* As usual, using E* macros like this is risky...
178 error (0, errno, "%s", file);
188 error (0, errno, "%s", file);
192 /* We've just created the file with the current times. */
198 /* We're setting only one of the time values. stat the target to get
199 the other one. If we have the file descriptor already, use fstat,
200 otherwise, FILE is a directory, so we have to use stat. */
201 if (fd == -1 ? stat (file, &sbuf) : fstat (fd, &sbuf))
203 error (0, errno, "%s", file);
209 if (fd != -1 && close (fd) < 0)
211 error (0, errno, "%s", file);
217 /* Pass NULL to utime so it will not fail if we just have
218 write access to the file, but don't own it. */
219 status = utime (file, NULL);
225 /* There's currently no interface to set file timestamps with
226 better than 1-second resolution, so discard any fractional
227 part of the source timestamp. */
231 utb.actime = ref_stats.st_atime;
232 utb.modtime = ref_stats.st_mtime;
235 utb.actime = utb.modtime = newtime;
237 if (!(change_times & CH_ATIME))
238 utb.actime = sbuf.st_atime;
240 if (!(change_times & CH_MTIME))
241 utb.modtime = sbuf.st_mtime;
243 status = utime (file, &utb);
248 error (0, errno, "%s", file);
259 fprintf (stderr, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
263 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name);
264 printf (_(" or : %s [-acm] MMDDhhmm[YY] FILE... (obsolescent)\n"),
267 Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.\n\
269 -a change only the access time\n\
270 -c, --no-create do not create any files\n\
271 -d, --date=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time\n\
273 -m change only the modification time\n\
274 -r, --reference=FILE use this file's times instead of current time\n\
275 -t STAMP use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time\n\
276 --time=WORD set time given by WORD: access atime use (same as -a)\n\
277 modify mtime (same as -m)\n\
278 --help display this help and exit\n\
279 --version output version information and exit\n\
281 Note that the three time-date formats recognized for the -d and -t options\n\
282 and for the obsolescent argument are all different.\n\
284 puts (_("\nReport bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>."));
291 main (int argc, char **argv)
297 program_name = argv[0];
298 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
299 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
300 textdomain (PACKAGE);
302 change_times = no_create = use_ref = posix_date = flexible_date = 0;
303 newtime = (time_t) -1;
305 while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "acd:fmr:t:", longopts, NULL)) != -1)
313 change_times |= CH_ATIME;
322 newtime = get_date (optarg, NULL);
323 if (newtime == (time_t) -1)
324 error (1, 0, _("invalid date format `%s'"), optarg);
332 change_times |= CH_MTIME;
342 newtime = posixtime (optarg,
343 PDS_LEADING_YEAR | PDS_CENTURY | PDS_SECONDS);
344 if (newtime == (time_t) -1)
345 error (1, 0, _("invalid date format `%s'"), optarg);
349 case CHAR_MAX + 1: /* --time */
350 change_times |= XARGMATCH ("--time", optarg,
351 time_args, time_masks);
354 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
356 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS);
363 if (change_times == 0)
364 change_times = CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME;
366 if ((use_ref && (posix_date || flexible_date))
367 || (posix_date && flexible_date))
369 error (0, 0, _("cannot specify times from more than one source"));
375 if (stat (ref_file, &ref_stats))
376 error (1, errno, "%s", ref_file);
380 if (!date_set && optind < argc && !STREQ (argv[optind - 1], "--"))
382 newtime = posixtime (argv[optind], PDS_TRAILING_YEAR);
383 if (newtime != (time_t) -1)
391 if ((change_times & (CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME)) == (CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME))
399 error (0, 0, _("file arguments missing"));
403 for (; optind < argc; ++optind)
404 err += touch (argv[optind]);