How to empty a file in fish?

Question

In bash shell scripting, I would typically run :> file to empty a file.

Now using fish, things are slightly different and the above command doesn't work.

What is fish equivalent?

Answer 1

Although it's not as short as :, true is a command that will work everywhere and produces no output:

true > file

Answer 2

Probably the easiest way that will be work in both Fish and Bash is to do echo "" > file

EDIT: Commenter was absolutely right echo "" > file produces a file with a newline, the correct command I was thinking of to create an empty file is cat /dev/null > file.