truncate a 2gig file ?

[Steven Farlie]

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 15:37, Simon Burton wrote:
> Also i have wanted to zero length a file in the past,
> ie. just keeping the filename....

In a shell you can just redirect from nothing into the file using '>':

> filename

That should zero the file. If filename doesn't exist, then it will
create a new file of zero length.
-- 
Steven
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