"purgelink" on HP-UX?

[DavidJ]

To those of you who know MPE, we have a purgelink command that allows the purgeing of a file while it's still in use.

What is the unix equivalent?

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi David,

If I look at below reference it should be rm, but maybe you are looking for truncating an open file

# cp /dev/null file

http://invent9k.external.hp.com/~csy/cmds.cgi?mpe=summary

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

[Gerhard Roets]

Hi David

You can "rm -f" a file that will behave similarly, but the same rules apply as with purgelink.

New processes wont be able to attach to the file( since its gone ).

The file space / inodes of the file will remain allocated till the last process lets go of its file handles on the file.

Regards
Gerhard

[DavidJ]

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