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From: mjohnsto@admin8780.shearson.com (Mike Johnston)
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Subject: Re: emptying a file and keeping its ownership
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Date: 9 Jan 91 18:44:50 GMT
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In-Reply-To: ghong@sdcc13.ucsd.edu's message of 8 Jan 91 19:34:03 GMT



How about just:

cat /dev/null > $FILENAME

Doesn't this satisfy the requirments?



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