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Forum: UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 07-13-2010

Emptying a file (bring the size of the file down to 0 , or close to 0)

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Forum: UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 07-13-2010

Emptying a file (bring the size of the file down to 0 , or close to 0)

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Emptying a file (bring the size of the file down to 0 , or close to 0)

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I tried to empty an existing file (bring the size of the file down to 0). When I used “> myFile” or “cat </dev/null >myFile”, when I do a “ls –la”, the file size shows as 0.

I then wrote...

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