There's no shell command (equivalent to Linux's touch) but you can use
the Java API: 
http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.html#setTimes(org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path,%20long,%20long)

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Ramasubramanian Narayanan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can you please help on to update the date & timestamp of a file in HDFS.
>
> regards,
> Rams



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