emptying a file and keeping its ownership

[mike at bria.UUCP]

In article <MJOHNSTO.91Jan7113152 at admin8780.shearson.com> admin8780.shearson.com!mjohnsto (Mike Johnston) writes:
:
:Isn't it silly to spend all this time developing rediculously long solutions
:to a simple problem when:
:
:
:touch $FILENAME
:
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:would suffice?

Bzzzzt.  Touch only creates a file if it doesn't already exist; it certainly
does NOT empty files.  Normally, it'll just change the modification
timestamp for the file.
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