Re: truncating files

[Carl Mummert <mummert@cs.wcu.edu>]

cm>> 
cm>> 1) > foo
cm>> 2) cp /dev/null foo
cm>> 
cm>> Problems:
cm>
cm>> 2) cp /dev/null foo won't take multiple filenames as arguments
cm>
cm>> So the answer is that I do need a script or program to do the job.
cm>
cm>What about:
cm>
cm>rm -f {list of filenames}
cm>touch {list of filenames}

This doesn't work if you don't have write permission to the
directory.  The solution should be able to truncate any file
I have write access to, even if I can't write to the directory.

Otherwise rm -f / touch would be ok.

Carl

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