In this article, we will go over five different ways to empty/delete a large file in Linux.
You might have a file that’s gigabytes in size that you want to get rid of quickly, or you want to automate emptying a file for each iteration. Whatever the case may be, you’ll be able to easily delete or empty a file with help from this article.
We’ll be running these commands on an Ubuntu 22.04 VPS, but pretty much all of these commands should work on any modern distribution.
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