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[–] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's someone out there to whom the existence of ping -i 30 is news.

The idea of using >file instead of touch file — or cp /dev/null file if it already exists — is new to me, though it doesn't seem all that useful.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

I've been doing echo "" > file
Useless Use of Echo I guess.