Man pages are your friend.
Linux man page for fopen says:
w Truncate file to zero length or create text file
for writing. The stream is positioned at the
beginning of the file.
Michael Cunningham writes:
>Does any one have any ideas about how I could go
>about zeroing out a text file? What modes would i use
>with fopen? Or should I just use system calls?
>Basically I have a file that updates every few minutes
>based on certain factors being present but when those
>factors arent present I cant figure out how to just zero
>out the file. Any ideas?
>
>
>Mike..
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