On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:09:43PM +0100, Armin Joellenbeck generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > Try the shell command echo: > > echo -n '' > file > > This redirect the empty string into file. The option -n avoids > the default printed newline, so the file is really empty. > > for x in *.* > do > echo -n '' > $x > done > > does the trick for several files. Instead of *.* use the pattern you like. This will do for now, thanks, I should really learn bash syntax.