How To Zero Out a File In Linux?
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To zero out a file in Linux, you can use the ‘dd’ command. You can do this by running the command ‘dd if=/dev/zero of=<filename> bs=1M’, where ‘<filename>’ is the name of the file you want to zero out. This command will overwrite the contents of the file with zeros, effectively zeroing it out.