In “Touch & Build: Auto-Update of Firmware Date and Time” I’m using commands as ‘touch’ in a pre-build script with the NXP Eclipse based MCUXpresso IDE. That ‘touch’ command is not a Windows shell command, but common on Linux: it updates the time/date of a file.

Build Step Dialog in MCUXpresso IDE

As a Windows user you might wonder what is about this ‘Linux compatible shell’?

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