"Invalid null command"

[Root Boy Jim]

In article <PPDuZ1w164w at dogface>  writes:
?rcd at ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
?> [users] are occasionally annoyed to find that csh rejects this syntax
?> with the confusing message "Invalid null command".
?
?What about
?	cat /dev/null > splot
?to create an empty file?  Not as, umm, Rube Goldberg-ish as your program,
?though.

OVERKILL! There is a builtin command, `:' which works nicely,
and is even easy to type. To empty a file, type :>file
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