RE: truncating files

[Ralph Winslow <rjw@rjw.nac.net>]

Try this one:

>foo

or, for multiple file names:

for xxx in *
do
>$xxx
done

where * is any regular expression or:

for xxx in a b c d e f g.c h.o g.txt ...
do
>$xxx
done

If your finger are lazier than that, I'm afraid I can't help ;-)


On 06-Dec-97 Carl Mummert wrote:
>Is there already a (standard) utility on a linux box to truncate a
>file to 0 bytes?  [Besides echo -n "" > foo, which is 1) too long for
>my lazy fingers and 2) won't take multiple filenames ]
>
>Since I couldn't find one, I wrote a little C program to do it, but I
>am still interested in whether there is already one on the system.
>
>Carl
>
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