I thought it would do the obvious, like touch does.
NAME touch - change file timestamps SYNOPSIS touch [OPTION]... FILE... DESCRIPTION Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time. A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty, unless -c or -h is supplied. NAME truncate - shrink or extend the size of a file to the specified size SYNOPSIS truncate OPTION... FILE... DESCRIPTION Shrink or extend the size of each FILE to the specified size A FILE argument that does not exist is created. Who would have guessed that for some reason an argument is required, I don't see why $ truncate FILE cannot just work too. You know, to truncate the file, to zero bytes. But hey I'm not a pro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org