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Comment by shmerl | Hacker News Reader

    truncate -s 0 ~/.vimrc

Shorter way:

    > ~/.vimrc

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Smarter way:

    $ mv ~/.vimrc ~/vimrc-reference

I'm trying to avoid cluttering $HOME. In my case it's ~/.config/nvim/init.vim

Not really shorter as I have to Ctrl+C to get back to shell afterwards.

Anyways my zsh has noclobber set so your command fails with error: zsh: file exists: ~/.vimrc

> ~/.vimrc works on bash, but it hangs on zsh because it treats it like cat > ~/.vimrc (> without any command in front of it is not well defined in POSIX) So portable way to do this is like this:

:> ~/.vimrc

Or to be completely portable

:> ~/.vimrc

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