Re: Printer Accounting

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From: Felix A. Lugo
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 02:29

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In article <1992Apr8.013359.11762@fsg.com> chuck@fsg.com (Chuck Yerkes) writes:
| 
| Actually the appropriate Unix way of creating an empty file is
| "touch filename"  Creates if none existed, leaves it if there
| "cp /dev/null filename" make an empty file (if there before or not)
| 
| 
| Not to pick nits, but it's a VERY important shell script trick

Actually, the appropriate UNIX (hackers) way of creating an empty file is
":> filename" (not including quotes, and the ":" is optional in
the Bourne shell, but required in Csh).

	8^)

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