m-spitfire/go-touch

Simple command line tool for using `touch` in Windows cmd

go-touch

The go interpetation of UNIX touch command. The motivation behind this was I couldn't find anything like touch command in windows, so I decided to create my own.

It does not completely copies the command, if file exists it changes its timestamp, if it doesn't, creates a new file.

Installation

Go to the releases page, install touch.exe, and add directory, where touch.exe lives, to the PATH variable.

In Windows

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\path\to\dir\of\touch

Installation from source

Requirements for installing from sourcre

• golang compiler >= 1.15

I didn't test it with old versions of go, so I wrote >=1.15, but I don't think it could fail with older versions

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Clone the repository, and cd into it

git clone https://github.com/spitfire-hash/go-touch
cd go-touch

Install the package

go install spitfire-hash/touch

Don't forget to add your ~/go/bin directory to your PATH variable. First find the bin path:

go list -f '{{.Target}}'

Then the output should be something like this:

'C:\Users\<User>\go\bin\touch.exe'

You should add the C:\Users\<User>\go\bin to your PATH, you can do it by

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\path\to\your\install\directory

Usage

touch FILE

Tests

For running test just do

go test

In the repository directory.