[ic] IC 4.8.7 Importing products and emptying table

[Michael Soflin]

I have a relatively small catalog (350 items).  We want to upload an
entirely new catalog periodically.  I create a products.txt that works
flawlessly using an import but my problem is that I want the existing
catalog to go away before the import.  Is there an easy way to do this
without deleting all the items individually.  I'm using MySQL on a
Redhat 7.2 server.  

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