Re: how to i return a filesize to "0"....?

[S/lawek /Lawicki <slawicki unisoft com pl>]

The easiest way I know is this:

cat /dev/null > YourHUGELogFile

This command does not change the ownership and permissions.

Slawek

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Matt Lemsing wrote:

> how do i return a filesize to 0? That is, i want to cleanup my HUGE log
> files from taking up room, but rather than getting rid fo the files i
> want to be able to clear all their contents out and returm their size
> value to 0 - is this possible and if so how do i do it..?
> 
> Matt
> 
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