Change file access and modification times

Unlike the touch POSIX utility this does not create the file if it does not exist. Use file_create() to do this if needed.

file_touch(path, access_time = Sys.time(), modification_time = access_time)

Arguments

path	A character vector of one or more paths.
access_time, modification_time	The times to set, inputs will be coerced to POSIXct objects.

Examples

.old_wd <- setwd(tempdir())
file_create("foo")
file_touch("foo", "2018-01-01")
file_info("foo")[c("access_time", "modification_time", "change_time", "birth_time")]
#> # A tibble: 1 x 4
#>   access_time         modification_time   change_time        
#>   <dttm>              <dttm>              <dttm>             
#> 1 2018-01-01 00:00:00 2018-01-01 00:00:00 2020-08-17 18:09:36
#> # … with 1 more variable: birth_time <dttm>
setwd(.old_wd)