In my company we have a strange habit of using third party tools to do the most trivial things rather than using the native features.<\/p>\n
A recent example of this is the use of the “Unix” touch command on Windows. It turns out it is quite simple to avoid having to install cygwin or an-other Unix command tools and just use a simple batch file or using the appropriate tasks in MsBuild or Ant.<\/p>\n
The batch file solution, is not a perfect solution as I suspect if the file is very large the “copy to self” could take a while but for general developer use it works just fine. <\/p>\n
So my touch.bat is simply…<\/p>\n
Windows touch.bat<\/strong><\/p>\n If you are using msbuild, then it has a “Touch task<\/a>” and similarly if you are using Ant it too has a Touch Task <\/a><\/p>\n Lastly if you are using powershell it can be done with a simple function:<\/p>\n In my company we have a strange habit of using third party tools to do the most trivial things rather than using the native features. A recent example of this is the use of the “Unix” touch command on Windows. … Continue reading @echo off\r\nfor %%i in (%*) do (\r\n if exist %%i (\r\n echo Updating timestramp for file : %%i\r\n copy \/b \"%%i\" +,,\r\n )\r\n\r\n if not exist %%i (\r\n echo Creating zero length file : %%i\r\n copy nul %%i\r\n )\r\n)<\/pre>\n
function touch\r\n{\r\n $file = $args[0]\r\n if($file -eq $null) {\r\n throw \"No filename supplied\"\r\n }\r\n\r\n if(Test-Path $file)\r\n {\r\n (Get-ChildItem $file).LastWriteTime = Get-Date\r\n }\r\n else\r\n {\r\n echo $null > $file\r\n }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"