> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, James Manning wrote:
>
> > > Ive considered just deleting the entire file and using touch
> > > to recreate an empty mbox folder, but there must be a more elegant
> > > and safe way.
> >
> > I'm sure there's better routes, but this is what I have for a daily
> > cron job - answer to the orig. question being "cp /dev/null foo"
> >
> > [snip]
> > cp /dev/null $SPAM_MBOX
>
> I'd be more likely to simply:
>
> echo "" > $SPAM_MBOX
>
>
Simpler yet:
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/root> >foo
Matt
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