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Arrow how to delete content in a file (delete content only)

Hi Friends

I have a file called processLog.txt file

processLog.txt
---------------
echo "line starts "$LINE
suppCode=${LINE:0:3}
#gatewayArchive=`scp root@mrp-gateway:/usr/local/apache/d...2708173000.txt /home/krishnaveni/scripts/tempFolder`
#echo "gateway files :"$gatewayArchive
#file1=$suppCode$DtTime"*.txt"
file1="112042708173000.txt"
echo "file1 :"$file1
#
# checking files in sftp server
#
find_sftp_files $file1
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once my task has done
just i need to delete content of that log file

i need to delete only content not file
is it possible
please help me from this problem

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it helpmed a lottttttt........
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echo > file.name
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