Tried that: You get a file consisting 2 quotes marks
I couldn't get any permutation of echo to work.



At 8/24/2005 11:08 PM, you wrote:
>Don't have a windows box here, but how about...
>
>echo "" > some_file
>
>On Aug 24, 2005, at 11:03 PM, AZ Pete wrote:
>
>>I initially tried this and it doesn't work.  When you type the echo
>>command with no text afterwards, it will return the status of the
>>echo command (either on of off).  So, when you execute echo >
>>some_file.txt, the file will contain the text "echo is on"
>>
>>Peter
>>
>>At 8/24/2005 10:51 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>>echo > some_file
>>>
>>>On Aug 24, 2005, at 10:37 PM, AZ Pete wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>I want to empty out a log file without having to erase it and
>>>>recreate a new zero length file.
>>>>Is there a windows command line equivalent of the following Linux
>>>>command:
>>>>
>>>>cat /dev/null > some_file
>>>>
>>>>Thanks!
>>>>Peter
>>>>
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