On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Yves Dorfsman <y...@zioup.com> 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. See also "useless use of cat" (UUOC) and the UUOC award <http://www.smallo.ruhr.de/award.html#cat>. Yours, John B. -- John Borwick University Libraries IT Services Director Virginia Tech
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