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Google Guava is a java library with lot of utilities and reusable components. This requires the library guava-10.0.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using Files.touch() API.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/guava/io_tests/TouchFileTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.guava.io_tests;



import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;



import com.google.common.io.Files;



public class TouchFileTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    

    File file = new File("C:\\abcd.txt");

    

    //Creates an empty file or updates the last updated timestamp on the

    //same as the unix command of the same name.

    Files.touch(file);

    System.out.println("Successfully touched the file");

  }



}

Touch File