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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting initialize file to zero Post 302248175 by MrC on Friday 17th of October 2008 05:10:00 AM
Old 10-17-2008
Note 1: to the unaware, touch won't truncate an existing file. It just creates one and updates the last modified timestamp.

Note 2: Many distributions set the bash noclobber option, so > file won't truncate an existing file - instead an error will occur. Use >| file instead.
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nerr_init(3)							  util/neo_err.h						      nerr_init(3)

NAME
nerr_init - initialize clearsilver error chain SYNOPSIS
#include <util/neo_err.h> NEOERR *nerr_init (void); ARGUMENTS
None DESCRIPTION
initialize the NEOERR system. Can be called more than once. Is not thread safe. This registers all of the built in error types as defined at the top of this file. If you don't call this, all exceptions will be returned as UnknownError. SEE ALSO
nerr_error_traceback(3), nerr_pass(3), nerr_error_string(3), defined(3), nerr_pass_ctx(3), nerr_passf(3), nerr_init(3), nerr_match(3), nerr_log_error(3), nerr_ignore(3), nerr_register(3), nerr_handle ClearSilver 12 July 2007 nerr_init(3)
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