Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 25 January 2010 12:22:09 Peng Yu wrote: >> 'touch' will not make the file size empty if the file is not empty. I >> don't not want to use 'rm -f' first then touch because I might >> accidentally remove something if I type anything wrong. Could somebody >> let me a better way to create an empty file? > >>file
Right. Note however, that for some shells you have to provide a command before the ">", so you may prefer this: : > file
