how to set crontab every 10 minutes delete content of log file on linux [closed]

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I wanna delete content of log file (/var/log/httpd/access_log) every 10 minutes, Please show me how to do that with crontab in linux Help me please Thanks a lot

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Open root's crontab for editing in default editor:

sudo crontab -e

Then add this line:

*/10   *    *    *    *    echo '' > /var/log/httpd/access_log