Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 16:39:42 -0500 From: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cleaning out files Message-ID: <20030404213942.GA20042@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304041536440.14291-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <200304041227.46615.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304041536440.14291-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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in message <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304041536440.14291-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>, wrote Jan Grant thusly... > > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote: > > > How do I clean the contents of text files without actually > > removing the files? > > man 1 truncate > > This is a command-line utility that directly wraps the appropriate > system call. Some other ways are (bourne shell)... cat /dev/null > file > file ...w/ above three methods, you would/should not have problem w/ binary files too, unlike the "echo -n" method. - parv --
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