Re: File size (shortest possible solution) + don't touch

[Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>]

the shortest possible:
       ` > somefile `
(( redirect the output of no command at all to somefile ))

Although not necessary, I'll often go
       ` true > somefile `
True does nothing other than return success. The reason why
I like using it is that it makes a placeholder so that a reader
knows that something (or rather explicitly nothing) is happening.


`Touch` doesn't work.. If the file already exists, it will simply
change the last mod-time. without altering the contents

The original purpose of touch (I think) was to convince make(1) that
something needed to be done.

Anindya Mozumdar wrote:
 > Hi,
 >    How can I make a file zero length without deleting the contents of
 >    the file manually through an editor ?
 > Anindya.


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