I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
AWS Alpha Tester (via Adobe)
Consultant to several Fortune-500 companies, government municipalities, school districts , and international entities in Enterprise-grade Asset Management projects.
Another one people don't seem to use much is
>|
which will overwrite a file even ifnoclobber
is on.Makes truncating a breeze!
|> logfile.log