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It was a while ago but I believe I've used touch on windows, from cygwin. You just need cygwin1.dll in the same folder as touch.exe, and call it from bash.exe.
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Re^2: Changing file modification timestamp
by blazar (Canon) on Jun 07, 2007 at 19:54 UTC
    It was a while ago but I believe I've used touch on windows, from cygwin. You just need cygwin1.dll in the same folder as touch.exe, and call it from bash.exe.

    There are ports which do not require the cygwin emulation layer nor a *nix shell to launched from:

    OTOH, does anybody remember Borland's touch.com?