How to delete content from a text file using windows batch script

Question

I have a demo.txt file. I need to delete content in that file using a batch file. Please tell me the command to delete content for demo.txt file.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19633676/how-to-delete-content-from-a-text-file-using-windows-batch-script

Answer 1

break>demo.txt

Try this.it will set an empty file on the place of demo.txt. As break is internal command that does nothing it should be pretty fast.Also the break command can produce output only with /? argument so this makes this method pretty robust.