Create empty file
# touch myfile.txt
Create Multiple Files
# touch myfile.txt myfile2.txt myfile3.txt
Update Access and modification times
# touch -m myfile.txt
Explicitly set the access and modification time
# touch -c -t 15101730 myfile.txt
For example the following command sets the access and modification date and time to a file myfile.txt as 17:30 (17:30 p.m.) December 10 of the current year (2015).