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touch

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touch(list, noop: nil, verbose: nil, mtime: nil, nocreate: nil) public

Updates modification time (mtime) and access time (atime) of file(s) in list. Files are created if they don’t exist.

Bundler::FileUtils.touch 'timestamp'
Bundler::FileUtils.touch Dir.glob('*.c');  system 'make'

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# File lib/bundler/vendor/fileutils/lib/fileutils.rb, line 1042
  def touch(list, noop: nil, verbose: nil, mtime: nil, nocreate: nil)
    list = fu_list(list)
    t = mtime
    if verbose
      fu_output_message "touch #{nocreate ? '-c ' : ''}#{t ? t.strftime('-t %Y%m%d%H%M.%S ') : ''}#{list.join ' '}"
    end
    return if noop
    list.each do |path|
      created = nocreate
      begin
        File.utime(t, t, path)
      rescue Errno::ENOENT
        raise if created
        File.open(path, 'a') {
          ;
        }
        created = true
        retry if t
      end
    end
  end

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