BETTER-TOUCH

A smarter touch command — better-touch automatically creates any missing directories in the path before creating the file, so you don't have to.

Usage

better-touch [OPTIONS] [FILENAME]...

Option	Description
-h, --help	Show this help message and exit
-V, --version	Show the current version
-v, --verbose	Enable verbose output
-a, --access-time	Set the access time of the file to now
-t [time], --time [time]	Set access time using ISO 8601 format (planned feature)
-c, --no-create	Don't create the file if it doesn't exist

Caution

The --time option is currently not implemented, due to language-level limitations. It may be added in a future update.

Installation

1. Download the latest release from the Releases page.

2. Extract the archive.

3. Run the install script:

bash installers/install.sh

This installs the binary to /usr/local/bin/ and installs the man page.

Development

• Clone the project and build the binary

bash build.sh

• To build the release version simply run

bash build.sh --release

Note

This is a hobby-project and may contain bugs or incomplete features.