To make a null file use touch command eg. $ touch file

How to create null files in solaris ?

Question Posted / kumarsaneesh

Answer Posted / kumarsaneesh

To make a null file use touch command
eg.

$ touch file_name

use the following to make an existing file empty.

$ :> file_name

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