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There's someone out there to whom the existence of
ping -i 30
is news.The idea of using
>file
instead oftouch file
— orcp /dev/null file
if it already exists — is new to me, though it doesn't seem all that useful.I've been doing echo "" > file
Useless Use of Echo I guess.