How to touch a File 

Jodd is an open-source java library with lot of reusable components and feature rich utilities. This requires the library jodd-3.3.2.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows how to use FileUtil.touch() API. It works just like UNIX touch command. If the given file doesn't exist it creates one otherwise updates its last modified timestamp to current timestamp.

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/jodd/io/TouchTest.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   [email protected]

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.jodd.io; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import jodd.io.FileUtil; public class TouchTest {   /**    * @param args    * @throws IOException     */   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {     FileUtil.touch("C:/ABC.txt");     FileUtil.touch(new File("C:/abcd.txt"));   } }