Re: Emptying files
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:44:11PM -0500, dan@cg619985-a.adubn1.nj.home.com wrote:
> I need a utility that will take a list of files using standard wildcards
> and empty their contents, but not deleting them. Has anyone stumbled on
> something like this? Thanks a bunch.
how about
for i in <filelist>
do
cat /dev/null > $i
done
HTH
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Yes means No and No means Yes. Delete all files [Y]?
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