Re: find

[Johannes Franken <jfranken@jfranken.de>]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 02:48:36PM -0200, Antonio Alberto Lobato wrote:
>     # find /var/log -type f -exec echo -n > {} \;
>     Why find create a file called "{}", instead to erase files contents

That's proper behavior.

The "> {}" goes to your shell (creating that file), so the arguments
left for find are: "/var/log -type f -exec echo -n"
(yet another implementation of the NOP command).

Try 
echo >/tmp/blankfile && find /var/log -type f -exec cp /tmp/blankfile {} \;
instead.

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