On Friday 04 April 2003 02:39, Stijn Hoop wrote:
The best way is simply doing:
bash]$ > filename
This clears the file out without destroying any open file descriptors on the
file.
- Jim
| On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:27:46PM +0200, CARTER Anthony wrote:
| > How do I clean the contents of text f
Yep, I want to clean out my log files in /var/log, but some of the log files
don't get re-created automatically (I get errors at bootup about some logs
not existing) if I just rm them.
Thanks,
Anthony
On Friday 04 April 2003 13:00, Jim wrote:
> On Friday 04 April 2003 02:39, Stijn Hoop wrote:
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 03:00:52AM -0800, Jim wrote:
> The best way is simply doing:
>
> bash]$ > filename
>
> This clears the file out without destroying any open file descriptors on the
> file.
Does echo -n 'destroy' an open file descriptor on the file? Does the above
work with other shells?
