How do I touch a file?

Date: 2010-09-16. Category: commons.io examples. Hits: 16K time(s).

This example demonstrate a touch command just like Unix touch command. If the file to be touched doesn't exist a new empty file will be created.

package org.kodejava.example.commons.io;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class TouchFileExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            File file = new File("Touch.dat");

            //
            // Touch the file, when the file is not exist a new file will be
            // created. If the file exist change the file timestamp.
            //
            FileUtils.touch(file);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

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