Re: Flush file contents

[Rick Weinbender <rwein@central-ph.k12.mo.us>]

Rick Pasotto wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:42:33PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote:
> > Is there a command to flush or empty the contents
> > of a file?
> > I would like the empty file to retain it's attributes and rights.
>
> cat /dev/null > file
>
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Thanks, that does the job.
-Rick