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How to zero out a file in tcsh?

Subject: How to zero out a file in tcsh?
From: david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 23:54:17 -0500
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On Thursday 06 February 2003 09:37 pm, Mark Hertel wrote:
> > Just curious, since we standardize on tcsh at work. Many thanks for any
> > help--
>
> how about just 'cat /dev/null > filename' ?


Or even easier, 'cp /dev/null filename'

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