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FAST, Parallelized touch(1) file utility
This is Rust rewrite of classic POSIX touch
The touch
This Rust performance rewrite version uses tokio
multi threaded backend for processing multiple files concurrently which
gives it major speedups compared to other touch programs.
This is especially visible when working on network attached NFS or SMB drives.
This speedups makes this version highly desirable for use in CI jobs, because
you are billed per second.
For filename mask specification touch-cli uses glob format
from glob crate . Glob format supports recursive touch (example: **/*.d )
It allows you to update timestamps for files within subdirectories as well.
Command Line parameters
Glob patterns and following options
are supported as command line arguments. Program uses getopt3
for options parsing, which have support for some extended parsing features such as grouping of options.
-c do not create any files
-a change only the access time
-m change only the modification time
-f ignored.
In 4.4BSD Lite2 -f means:
Attempt to force the update, even if the file permissions do not
currently permit it.
-v output version and exit
-? print help and exit
Default is to create new files and change both access and modification times.
Exit values
Task completed without errors
No mandatory file or pattern command line arguments supplied
Glob command line expression is wrong.
Check proper syntax of glob pattern .
Error while applying changes to file system
References
GNU touch manpage from GNU coreutilsLite2 touch manpage
from 4.4BSD-Lite2.Reno touch manpage
from 4.3BSD-Reno.