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Issue 23.3

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Touch GUI

Creating a Handy Utility

Issue: 23.3 (May/June 2025)
Author: Marc Zeedar
Author Bio: Marc taught himself programming in high school when he bought his first computer but had no money for software. He's had fun learning ever since.
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I have tons of little utility apps I've written for personal use, and sometimes it's fun to share these. Even if you don't find the item useful for your own needs, perhaps it will inspire you to customize it or create something similar for yourself.

Being based on UNIX, macOS has long had a terminal command called touch, which is used to change a file's modification date. By default, it updates it to the current date and time, but you can also specify a specific date and time if you'd like.

However, this gets complicated as the command has many settings. Here's a portion of the touch man page:

TOUCH(1) General Commands Manual TOUCH(1)

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