That's one use case. The actual use case touch was designed for was to update the timestamp of a file. This is a huge case for developers, since timestamps ar

That's one use case. The actual use case touch was designed for was to update the timestamp of a file. This is a huge case for developers, since timestamps are used in dependency resolution of partial compilation. [1] [1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/touch.1.html https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/touch.1.html NAME touch - change file timestamps DESCRIPTION Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.