On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 07:33:49PM +0530, Hareesh Haridas wrote:
> is there a method/command in linux to empty the contents of a file
> without deleting it ? i mean something which does the equivalent of:
I keep this around:
binand@binand[~]:(5) type empty
empty is a function
empty ()
{
for i in $*;
do
if test -f $i; then
cp -f /dev/null $i;
fi;
done
}
Put the function in your .profile, and use it as:
empty file1 file2 file3 ...
Binand
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