fritools (version 4.6.0)

touch: Mock the Unix touch Utility

Description

Creating files or ensuring that their file modification times change.

touch2 is an alternate - yet not faster - implementation.

Usage

touch(...)
touch2(...)

Value

The Paths to the files touched.

Arguments

...

Paths to files.

See Also

Other file utilities: clipboard_path(), delete_trailing_blank_lines(), delete_trailing_whitespace(), develop_test(), file_copy(), file_modified_last(), file_save(), file_string(), find_files(), get_lines_between_tags(), get_mtime(), get_unique_string(), grep_file(), is_files_current(), is_path(), paths, runsed(), search_files(), split_code_file()

Examples

file1 <- tempfile()
file2 <- tempfile()
touch(file1, file2)
t1 <- file.mtime(file1, file2)
touch(file2)
t2 <- file.mtime(file1, file2)
t1 < t2
file <- file.path(tempfile(), "path", "not", "there.txt")
touch(file)
file.exists(file)