Cisco Systems 1.0 (1) manual How to Use the Touch Utility, To Access Touch from the Dashboard

How to Use the Touch Utility

Use the Touch utility to change the creation date/time for any file.

To Access Touch from the Dashboard

To run Touch from the Support Tools Dashboard:

1.Use the System Select screen to select the system you want to work with.

2.From the Dashboard menu, select Cisco Common Tools > Touch.

3.In the Arguments field, enter desired arguments, as described in the Using section below.

Note: When entering arguments, the Touch command is already implied. Do not enter it in the Arguments field.

4.Specify the command duration time or accept the default (60 seconds). This is the amount of time the command will attempt to run before terminating.

5.If desired, check Elevate Command Priority. This ensures the command will run regardless of the level of server activity.

6.Click the Run button.

Using Touch

Touch displays the last <count> lines of each of the files listed on the line. If no files are listed, display the last <count> lines of the standard input.

<count> defaults to 10.

Syntax

touch [ -c? ] [ mmddhhmm[yy] ] file1 ...

Command Line Options

The options for Touch are:

-c: Prevents touch from creating files that did not previously exist

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