Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 08:33:56 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: dissonant <disowned@linda.pomona.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: empty a file? Message-ID: <19990327223356.13535.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903270446260.52265-100000@linda.pomona.edu> of Sat, 27 Mar 1999 04:48:11 PST References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903270446260.52265-100000@linda.pomona.edu>
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> Sorry to ask a dumb unix question....but, is there any easy way, in the > shell or in a script of some sort, to empty a file, leaving its > permissions, uid/gid, etc, untouched? The two traditional idioms (for scripts and interactive use) are: cp /dev/null your.file : >your.file Being a minimalist, I prefer the second one :-) It's possible to save a couple of characters in the minimalist version, but that tends to lead to obscurity for no real gain. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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