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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: "Invalid null command"
Message-ID: <127435@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 4 Apr 91 02:05:51 GMT
References: <1991Apr2.005620.11434@ico.isc.com> <PPDuZ1w164w@dogface>
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In article <PPDuZ1w164w@dogface>  writes:
?rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
?> [users] are occasionally annoyed to find that csh rejects this syntax
?> with the confusing message "Invalid null command".
?
?What about
?	cat /dev/null > splot
?to create an empty file?  Not as, umm, Rube Goldberg-ish as your program,
?though.

OVERKILL! There is a builtin command, `:' which works nicely,
and is even easy to type. To empty a file, type :>file
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