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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. --> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../stylesheets/style.css"> <title>Touch Task</title> </head> <body> <h2><a name="touch">Touch</a></h2> <h3>Description</h3> <p>Changes the modification time of a resource and possibly creates it at the same time. In addition to working with a single file, this Task can also work on <a href="../CoreTypes/resources.html">resources</a> and resource collections (which also includes directories). Prior to Ant 1.7 only FileSet or <a href="../CoreTypes/filelist.html">Filelist</a> (since Ant 1.6) have been supported.</p> <h3>Parameters</h3> <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td> <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td> <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">file</td> <td valign="top">The name of the file.</td> <td valign="top" align="center">Unless a nested resource collection element has been specified.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">millis</td> <td valign="top">Specifies the new modification time of the file in milliseconds since midnight Jan 1 1970.</td> <td valign="center" align="center" rowspan="2">No--datetime takes precedence, however if both are omitted the current time is assumed.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">datetime</td> <td valign="top">Specifies the new modification time of the file. The special value "now" indicates the current time (now supported since Ant 1.8).</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">pattern</td> <td valign="top">SimpleDateFormat-compatible pattern string. Defaults to MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM AM_or_PM or MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM_or_PM. <b>Since Ant 1.6.3</b></td> <td valign="top" align="center">No</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">mkdirs</td> <td valign="top">Whether to create nonexistent parent directories when touching new files. <b>Since Ant 1.6.3</b></td> <td valign="top" align="center">No, default <i>false</i>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">verbose</td> <td valign="top">Whether to log the creation of new files. <b>Since Ant 1.6.3</b></td> <td valign="top" align="center">No, default <i>true</i>.</td> </tr> </table> <h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3> <h4>any resource collection</h4> <p>You can use any number of nested resource collection elements to define the resources for this task and refer to resources defined elsewhere. <b>Note:</b> resources passed to this task must implement the <code>org.apache.tools.ant.types.resources.Touchable</code> interface, this is true for all filesystem-based resources like those returned by path, fileset ot filelist.</p> <p>For backwards compatibility directories matched by nested filesets will be "touched" as well, use a <type> selector to suppress this. This only applies to filesets nested into the task directly, not to filesets nested into a path or any other resource collection.</p> <h4>mapper</h4> <p><em>Since Ant 1.6.3,</em> a nested <a href="../CoreTypes/mapper.html"> mapper</a> can be specified. Files specified via nested <code>fileset</code>s, <code>filelist</code>s, or the <code>file</code> attribute are mapped using the specified mapper. For each file mapped, the resulting files are touched. If no time has been specified and the original file exists its timestamp will be used. If no time has been specified and the original file does not exist the current time is used. Since Ant 1.8 the task settings (<code>millis</code>, and <code>datetime</code>) have priority over the timestamp of the original file.</p> <h3>Examples</h3> <pre> <touch file="myfile"/></pre> <p>creates <code>myfile</code> if it doesn't exist and changes the modification time to the current time.</p> <pre> <touch file="myfile" datetime="06/28/2000 2:02 pm"/></pre> <p>creates <code>myfile</code> if it doesn't exist and changes the modification time to Jun, 28 2000 2:02 pm (14:02 for those used to 24 hour times).</p> <pre> <touch datetime="09/10/1974 4:30 pm"> <fileset dir="src_dir"/> </touch></pre> <p>changes the modification time to Oct, 09 1974 4:30 pm of all files and directories found in <code>src_dir</code>. </p> <pre> <touch file="myfile" datetime="06/28/2000 2:02:17 pm"/></pre> <p>creates <code>myfile</code> if it doesn't exist and changes the modification time to Jun, 28 2000 2:02:17 pm (14:02:17 for those used to 24 hour times), if the filesystem allows a precision of one second - a time close to it otherwise.</p> <pre> <touch file="foo"> <mapper type="glob" from="foo" to="bar" /> </touch> </pre> <p>creates <code>bar</code> if it doesn't exist and changes the modification time to that of <code>foo</code>.</p> <pre> <touch file="foo" datetime="now"> <mapper type="regexp" from="^src(.*)\.java" to="shadow\1.empty" /> </touch> </pre> <p>creates files in the <code>shadow</code> directory for every java file in the <code>src</code> directory if it doesn't exist and changes the modification time of those files to the current time.</p> </body> </html>
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