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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:48:48 +0200
From:      Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com>
To:        Jos Chrispijn <kernel@webrz.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Buld echo
Message-ID:  <4B4C6FB0.9050309@gmx.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B4C4D2D.2040609@webrz.net>
References:  <4B4C4D2D.2040609@webrz.net>

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On 1/12/2010 12:21 PM, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> I have 35 log files that I want to flush once a day.
> In order to keep them exist I now do an 'echo > logfile.log'
> How can I do such in one command having the same effect on all log files?

You could use truncate(1). Something like:
truncate -s 0 file1 file2 file2 ...




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