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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
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Subject: Re: emptying a file and keeping its ownership
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Date: 2 Jan 91 15:01:19 GMT
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allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>	% echo > file
>	% ls -s file
>	0 file

	Not quite. On the systems I know, echo outputs a new line character.
Thus your ostensibly zero'ed file would have a size of 1 byte.