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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!