I have learned to simply '> some_file' as a shortcut for 
'cat /dev/null > some_file'

Craig

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 23:18 -0700, AZ Pete wrote:
> 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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