Re: trimming a file but got error?

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:34:29 -0400

In article <c06e4d68.0404272047.4a9d8b56@posting.google.com>,
 yls177@hotmail.com (yls177) wrote:

> when i trim a file, i have this error "Invalid null command."
> i can do it with root, with shell ksh. but when i am switch to other
> user, i get the above error and that user shell is csh. the file
> belongs to the switch user.

Are you trying to use the command:

> filename

That is valid syntax in shells based on Bourne shell syntax, but it's
not valid in C shell. Use:

cat /dev/null > filename 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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