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Clear the file with a cd command?

Alexis Wilke
– Alexis Wilke

2020-11-04 21:39:49 +00:00
Commented Nov 4, 2020 at 21:39
@AlexisWilke The cd command is just to navigate to the directory, the next line is bashism which truncates the size of the file to 0 (this answer assumes the shell used is Bash, and doesn't work with things like zsh)

Ferrybig
– Ferrybig

2021-02-08 13:38:09 +00:00
Commented Feb 8, 2021 at 13:38
@Ferrybig Ah. Now that the formatting was fixed, I can see how that works. Before those two lines appeared on a single line.

Alexis Wilke
– Alexis Wilke

2021-02-08 18:32:08 +00:00
Commented Feb 8, 2021 at 18:32

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create code fences with backticks ` or tildes ~
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like so
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add language identifier to highlight code
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def function(foo):
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```
put returns between paragraphs
for linebreak add 2 spaces at end
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