You can employ it with the -s option that specifies the file size. To empty a file content, use a size of 0 (zero) as in the next command: Thatâs it for now, in this article we have covered multiple methods of clearing or emptying file content using simple command line utilities and shell redirection mechanism.
On August 17, 1962, Peter Fechter, an 18-year-old citizen of East Berlin, bled to death after he was shot down by a East Berlin border patrol in his attempt to escape over the wall. The last to die was Chris Gueffroy on June 2, 1989. Many attempted to escape over the 28 years of the wall`s existence.
Now, we're talking about the fall of the wall, 20 years ago today, with Carol Guzy, staff photographer for the Washington Post who was there, J.D. Bindenagel, then the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Berlin, Peter Schneider, a German writer and with John Sununu, then the White House chief of staff.wenty years ago today â on Nov. 9, 1989 â crowds swelled at the barrier that divided East and West Berlin as the wall that stood as a symbol of the Cold War came down.