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From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: emptying a file and keeping its ownership
Message-ID: <662619687.4441@mindcraft.com>
Date: 31 Dec 90 05:01:25 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).

  > $FILE

A redirect with no input truncates the file under Bourne shell.
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