node-touch

For all your node touching needs.

This is a fork of Isaac Schlueter's touch module. This adds the ability to use touch from npm scripts in a cross platform manner, like so:

{
  "scripts": {
    "touch": "touch foo",
    "remove": "rimraf foo"
  }
}

Installing

npm install --save-dev https://github.com/shovon/node-touch/tarball/v0.1.0

CLI Usage:

See man touch

API Usage:

var touch = require("touch")

Gives you the following functions:

• touch(filename, options, cb)
• touch.sync(filename, options)
• touch.ftouch(fd, options, cb)
• touch.ftouchSync(fd, options)

Options

• force like touch -f Boolean
• time like touch -t <date> Can be a Date object, or any parseable Date string, or epoch ms number.
• atime like touch -a Can be either a Boolean, or a Date.
• mtime like touch -m Can be either a Boolean, or a Date.
• ref like touch -r <file> Must be path to a file.
• nocreate like touch -c Boolean

If neither atime nor mtime are set, then both values are set. If one of them is set, then the other is not.