Can anyone help with using the following command:
cat /dev/null > XX (where XX is the filename)

I want to run this command through a script that runs every day.

Any ideas??

#!/bin/ksh

touch XX

# The cat command is unecessary.

# You can also use:

# >XX

Set up your script to run from cron. If you want to create a new file every day, use the > syntax. If you simply touch a file that already exists, it will only change the date/time stamp. The contents will remain unchanged. Using > will create a new file.

what the command "cat /dev/null > XX" does is that it just empties the contents of the file XX.It can be used to empty long log files.