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Re:You can do a lot with an empty file by macintux on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:07PM (#30940202)
Does an empty file contain characters? That first sentence seems like it contradicts itself.
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Re:You can do a lot with an empty file by brianpan on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:27AM (#30941269)
Yes. It contains zero characters.

An empty file actually contains zero of everything in the universe.

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Re:You can do a lot with an empty file by dfox on Thursday April 07, 2022 @08:56AM (#30943807)
The idea behind the definition is that it defines set of files that will not trigger various bugs in traditional unix text tools implementations (ie. various variants of not checking the fgets() return value).
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Re:You can do a lot with an empty file by nerdponx on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:23AM (#30941243)
I think the implication is that empty files are considered text files.
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