How to clear catalina.out without disabling further logging

This article describes how to delete Apache Tomcat catalina.out log.

Step 1 : Go to apache tomcat log directory

                     [root@centos ~]#   cd /apache-tomcat-8.5.12/logs/

Step 2 :  Clear the file catalina.out

                       [root@centos ~]#  echo > catalina.out