Continually touches a file

touchContinuously.sh

#!/bin/bash
DIR="/home/someone/somedir"
FILE="${1:?"First argument must be the filename name"}"
COUNT=1
FILE_TO_TOUCH="${DIR}/${FILE}"

handleTrap(){
     echo -e "\n\nTouched '${FILE_TO_TOUCH}' ${COUNT} times."
     exit 0
}
trap handleTrap INT TERM 

while touch "${FILE_TO_TOUCH}"; do
	COUNT=$((COUNT+1))
done

echo "Touch command failed out after ${COUNT} invocations" 

Continually touch a file or directory until the script is interrupted 'CTRL-C'