Handy Hint

Thursday, February 25. 2010

If you've ever wanted to clear the contents of a file quickly, without breaking anything hooked into a file (useful for large files), look no further than the truncate command provided by the coreutils package.

CODE:

truncate -s 0 fileame

Instantly Shrinks the file to 0 bytes, and maintains anything associated with it.

Just be careful you don't accidently clear a file by accident, as theres no way to reverse, and it doesn't prompt you to confirm your selection

Keith

Posted by Keith Ward in General at 02:13 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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