Re: ex large file

On Monday, July 30, 2012 1:24:31 PM UTC-5, Gary Johnson wrote:
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> > 'echo "" > filetowipe' would be a new file, I want to edit the same file.
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> I'm not following you. I didn't suggest redirecting to a new file.
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> I suggested redirecting to the same file name you used in your
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> example. Further, I didn't suggest using echo--I suggested simply
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> this command (shown this time without the shell prompt):
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> > largefile
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> where 'largefile' is the name of the file you wish to empty.
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That's partially my fault for using a different file name in my example. I thought it would be fairly obvious what I was doing. I *did* use echo because I didn't realize you could do without it. I meant to use Tony's cp /dev/null method instead but couldn't remember the exact path off the top of my head (I'm still not very good at Unix).

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