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- From: kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: How to empty a file
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.190410.17063@prism.poly.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 19:04:10 GMT
- References: <BtLLps.But@cs.dal.ca> <1992Aug28.051548.16935@ddsw1.mcs.com> <ahn.714982174@ac>
- Organization: Polytechnic University, New York
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- In article <ahn.714982174@ac> ahn@ac.wfunet.wfu.edu (Dave Ahn) writes:
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- >Try 'touch logfile'
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- This will only leave an empty file if the file does not exist. If the file
- exists, it will only change the access and modification times.
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- Theodore S. Kapela kapela@poly.edu
- Center for Applied Large-Scale Computing
- Polytechnic University
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