On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:55:29PM -0500, 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 > Hi, also, : > file HeHeHe, -Kev Ps. it is also a safe thing to do to log files. If you delete a logfile, data will be lost. But by cp'ing and then null'ing a file you dont risk that.
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