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From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 13:58:50 +0200
Jos Chrispijn <bsduser@cloudzeeland.nl> wrote:

> I have this number of .log files which I would like to empty.
> 
> Using
> 
> echo > *.log

	truncate -s 0 *.log

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>