Truncate files to zero length

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This will reduce the filesize of foo and bar to 0 bytes:

truncate -s0 foo bar

If the files do not exist they will be created.

You can use this to easily truncate your application's log files:

truncate -s0 log/*.log
Arne Hartherz
Last edit
Dominik Schöler
Keywords
linux, unix, shell
License
Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.
Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2011-09-20 14:38)