Command help

[Rajeev Prasad]

it would redirect the null input into the file.




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From: nathan nolast <nathan1465 at gmail.com>
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:18 AM
Subject: Command help


can someone please inform me how this works

> filename.txt

this emptys the file but i cant find what > is doing, what is >  

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