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I just tried it. The echo version leaves a blank line in the file. Doesn't look like our version of echo takes the parm to not append the newline.


On Thu, 2021-10-14 at 12:40 +0000, Kevin Bucknum wrote:
You can also try strqsh cmd('truncate -s0 /path/to/your.file')

Not sure if that is a qsh command or open source package however.

On Thu, 2021-10-14 at 12:39 +0000, Alan Shore wrote:
Thanks for your reply Kevin
Let me give that a go

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On Thu, 2021-10-14 at 12:35 +0000, Alan Shore via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
Hi everyone
We are on V7r3
Does anyone know of a command and/or process and/or procedure to clear a file in the ifs
I tried a google search, but nothing was found
As always - all responses gratefully accepted

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