On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
For the past 25 years or so, I've always used:
cat /dev/null >/path/to/filename
to empty a file. Somebody just showed me:
>/path/to/filename
Is this "new"? I've never seen it before (and I've worked with quite a few
sysadmins and devs)... Is this bash vs other shells? I feel weird not knowing
this.
I don't think it's new or bash only, I've seen it in some quite old stuff.
There are always new tricks to learn, no matter how long you've been at this
stuff.
David Lang
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