delete contents from command line

juanbro · #1 (**permalink**) 12-23-2003

How might I delete the contents of a file from the command line? (not delete the file)

RTM · #2 (**permalink**) 12-23-2003

cat /dev/null > file-to-be-empty

And please use the search feature of this site to find your answers - this post would have given you everything you need to know (and the many ways of doing what you wanted to do).

jayakhanna · #3 (**permalink**) 12-23-2003

one more way

echo "" >junk

Regards

juanbro · #4 (**permalink**) 12-23-2003

:: cat /dev/null > file-to-be-empty

thank you

:: And please use the search feature of
:: this site to find your answers -
:: this post would have given you
:: everything you need to know (and the
:: many ways of doing what you wanted
:: to do

I did search first, but did not find the
answer in my result sets.

Thanks again.

tikual · #5 (**permalink**) 12-23-2003

most fastest way

> filename

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