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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 ...