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-rw-r--r--coreutils/touch.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/coreutils/touch.c b/coreutils/touch.c
index 3f7b265bd..dceb7c1cc 100644
--- a/coreutils/touch.c
+++ b/coreutils/touch.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ int touch_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
}
do {
- if (utimes(*argv, reference_file ? timebuf : NULL) != 0) {
+ if (utimes(*argv, (reference_file || date_str) ? timebuf : NULL) != 0) {
if (errno == ENOENT) { /* no such file */
if (opts) { /* creation is disabled, so ignore */
continue;
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ int touch_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
fd = open(*argv, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0666);
if (fd >= 0) {
xclose(fd);
- if (reference_file)
+ if (reference_file || date_str)
utimes(*argv, timebuf);
continue;
}