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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!nixpbe!usun01!hoepfner
  2. From: hoepfner@usun01.UUCP (Andreas Hoepfner)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
  4. Subject: Re: How to empty a file
  5. Message-ID: <1099@usun01.UUCP>
  6. Date: 8 Sep 92 09:52:11 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug28.051548.16935@ddsw1.mcs.com> <ahn.714982174@ac> <1992Sep1.190410.17063@prism.poly.edu> <1992Sep2.003609.9978@venice.sedd.trw.com> <BtxIIn.ALK@world.std.com>
  8. Organization: Nixdorf Computer AG, Paderborn, Germany
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  11. In <BtxIIn.ALK@world.std.com> geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) writes:
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  13. >Larry Gilmore:
  14. >>When I had to ensure a zero-length file, I used:
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  16. >>cat /dev/null > foofile
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  18. >What's wrong with ">file" (or ": >file" for you csh users)?
  19. >-- 
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  21. Whats about 'cp /dev/null foofile'. Gives me the same result....
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