emptying a file and keeping its ownership
Perry Minyard 3MTA3
perry at bluemtn
Tue Jan 8 23:46:44 AEST 1991
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In article <MJOHNSTO.91Jan7113152 at admin8780.shearson.com> mjohnsto at admin8780.shearson.com (Mike Johnston) writes:
>
>Isn't it silly to spend all this time developing rediculously long solutions
>to a simple problem when:
>
>
>would suffice?
No, it wouldn't. touch will not erase a file that already exists. touch
only updates the time/date stamp on the file. If the file doesn't exist,
it will create it. <at least this holds true for SCO XENIX>
>
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