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
in message
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wrote Jan Grant thusly...
>
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote:
>
> > How do I clean the contents of text files without actually
> > removing the files?
>
> man 1 truncate
>
> This is a command-line utility that directly wraps the appropriate
> system call
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote:
> How do I clean the contents of text files without actually removing the files?
man 1 truncate
This is a command-line utility that directly wraps the appropriate
system call.
--
jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
Tel
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?
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:27:46PM +0200, CARTER Anthony wrote:
> How do I clean the contents of text files without actually removing the files?
$ echo -n > $FILE
Works for me, there are various other ways. You will end up with a 0-byte
file, is that what you mean by 'cleaning'?
--Stijn
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I r
How do I clean the contents of text files without actually removing the files?
Thanks,
Anthony
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