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To: dissonant <disowned@linda.pomona.edu>
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Subject: Re: empty a file? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Mar 1999 04:48:11 PST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 05:00:09 -0800
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>Sorry to ask a dumb unix question....but, is there any easy way, in the
>shell or in a script of some sort, to empty a file, leaving its
>permissions, uid/gid, etc, untouched?

   cp /dev/null file

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project


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