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Thumbs up Whatr is the Unix command ?

Hello everybody i am a new member of this community

I just wanted to know that what is the unix command to empty the content of a file.

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Welcome to the forum !

Code:
cp /dev/null filename
cat /dev/null > filename
Many other commands based on the shell that you are using

You can use the search facility of the forum.
There are ' n ' number of threads discussing the same.

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