emptying a file and keeping its ownership
Chuan Chee
ckchee at dgp.toronto.edu
Mon Dec 31 14:07:23 AEST 1990
I have SCO Xenix 2.2.3. What's the easiest way to "empty" a file
while keeping its ownership (owner,group) and access permissions the
same? Actually I only care about permissions (rw-rw-rw).
I would like this done in Bourne shell (or possibly CSH).
One other thing, this shell script is run under root.
Here's the way I currently do it:
rm -f $FILE
touch $FILE
chmod +w $FILE
chown $OWNER $FILE
chgrp $GRP $FILE
Thanks in advance.
...Chuan Chee
ckchee at dgp.utoronto.ca
ckchee at dgp.toronto.edu (internet)
ckchee at dgp.utoronto (bitnet)
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