How to zero out a file in tcsh?

[gaf at gaf.blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:29:15 -0500
Derek Martin <blu at sophic.org> wrote:

> One method to do this regardless of how your shell handles redirection
> and what flavor of echo you have is this:
> 
>   rm filename; touch filename
I fully concur with Derek. This is full portable accross all versions of
Unix and Linux. As mentioned in the other posts, echo, while a shell
builtin may have different behavior depending on the shell. 


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