I initially tried this and it doesn't work.  When you type the echo command 
with no text afterwards, it will return the status of the echo command 
(either on of off).  So, when you execute echo > some_file.txt, the file 
will contain the text "echo is on"

Peter

At 8/24/2005 10:51 PM, you wrote:
>echo > some_file
>
>On Aug 24, 2005, at 10:37 PM, AZ Pete wrote:
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I want to empty out a log file without having to erase it and
>>recreate a new zero length file.
>>Is there a windows command line equivalent of the following Linux
>>command:
>>
>>cat /dev/null > some_file
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Peter
>>
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