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From: donlash@uncle.uucp (Donald Lashomb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: emptying a file and keeping its ownership
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Date: 31 Dec 90 12:01:06 GMT
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In article <1990Dec30.220722.29050@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> ckchee@dgp.toronto.edu (Chuan Chee) writes:
=I have SCO Xenix 2.2.3.  What's the easiest way to "empty" a file
=while keeping its ownership (owner,group) and access permissions the
=same?  Actually I only care about permissions (rw-rw-rw).
=I would like this done in Bourne shell (or possibly CSH).
=One other thing, this shell script is run under root.

This works for me:
	> file      # shell opens file for writing, and writes 0 bytes

hope this is what you are looking for
-Don