Depending on the environment you can also use the truncate command. This will work if the file is open as well. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/truncate.

Depending on the environment you can also use the truncate command. This will work if the file is open as well. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/truncate.1.html https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/truncate.1.html