From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Aug 5 12:13:14 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF55DD2652 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2017 12:13:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm14-vm9.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm14-vm9.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.96.197]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF83572EC9 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2017 12:13:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1501935185; bh=mukuBtkoZ2jgI52VzHFCijTbXn6YafJb7aqoAcfcjAw=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=MVCxyj+djBU3lWUB74v+tGBi5Q7l3zwyPC3qhPlhFfyxgJ8rdXtTCvC3XrfnXsu4dK8kcCqjV7LBVljsZC2+++pkSk0p2SXxPx+iwQ31dUWeaz6IVSVF9GOMZbnln4xfF78fLTa9+oZhpbaSxjdsia+YZ2rqdYqpDRfmql+T4X5BhZyGogzI5VyI0uTP0DwObicgQxDBDmWn09Majgfu/8Dx1CyAXsrhcUGidwREAKjFbDQ5aHLyYVaxrwcKqVZv8DAVo1Jk2hwklT3x/D8/Uoe/chsKKK+q6YoAJHjfxYhf17pBx/Y+3LkGHpD4cJBxf5n7I3KQ4ZHuLNnyGPKBtQ== Received: from [212.82.98.61] by nm14.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Aug 2017 12:13:05 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.97] by tm14.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Aug 2017 12:13:05 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp134.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Aug 2017 12:13:05 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 943002.46158.bm@smtp134.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: UFrC39YVM1mmEDDku802ZlvPMBBmHQU14Ols4X5cJ_PKWbQ olxfCagwnHpKN1JJDDogsQbKQ08xrPb3WGY2BbG8.7ZcUZIuHILAxVXGjpAF y.nNGhVNnkjS3Y5yP6nVCz6.JZt0Ri.VT.ciRwS73xptHSA2MAz6q9iu3P2p p1awvuaakHNnRVeea4a.UfOCevn_a_4QN4P6z0dAsa19jY9wZYrd090bWe7_ XuRv1FJLFOGhggGMHkCAUMA0hgpB_qtnLPRj.k.iovF936KDLURdKbJ7pSnJ f1_eddzFDFdGu2reWuQ7AeHlzAxLXEGtvGQc4T9BZj2D0nmTSfA9C_BP00c3 i4FmPk2FBCZaQ7xUu_w6iVwuXpIVgj8x8F2dffhjdkQO9nZtbKHBxVe2MrF3 bQyN_OB9ZMvV.xe8LLHJMgTe.U0Ku98r5fIUn2IUrAhkwIERrqnqlDVwSoQE Y3.hf_NSvPLR3zkrmK9ZQK7Mri7qSuO7jRvbGwLJSyTMr09R0.NcoMKZQmhD IY1tJhv_YLQ3rKhhyvnejhmDgLc5irQg- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 14:13:06 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wildcard on redirection Message-ID: <20170805141306.60e720f5@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <25f022f4-4778-3f28-8d78-1f1b292f849e@cloudzeeland.nl> References: <25f022f4-4778-3f28-8d78-1f1b292f849e@cloudzeeland.nl> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.15.0git72 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 12:13:14 -0000 On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 13:58:50 +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: >I have this number of .log files which I would like to empty. > >Using > >echo > *.log > >unfortunately doesn't work so I created > >foreach file in (/myfiles/log/*log) > echo "" > $file >end > >but that sequence is not recognized at all. > >Can you tell me how to solve? Thanks! I suspect the dot isn't useful at all, I guess with or without the dot "analog" would be "*log", too, but actually your shell might treat the dot in a different way. However echo "" | tee *log does the trick. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tee&sektion=1&apropos=0&manpath=redhat