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Unix shell script to truncate a large file
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Unix shell script to truncate a large file
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I am trying to write a Unix script which will truncate/empty a file which is continuously being written/open by an application when it reaches say 3GB of space. I know that the below command would do it :
cp /dev/null [filename]
But I am going to run this in an production environment automatically as a cron job - just posting here to see if you guys faced any issues while doing something similar to this.
Just to add another answer,
: > filename
: is a no-op in bash, so this essentially just opens the file for writing (which of course truncates the file) and then immediately closes it.
EDIT: as shellter commented, you don't actually need a command to go along with the redirection:
$ echo foo > foo.txt
$ cat foo.txt
foo
$ > foo.txt
$ cat foo.txt
$
A simple redirection all by itself will clear the file.
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