Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:01:32 +0100 From: Redd Vinylene <reddvinylene@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org>, Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> Subject: Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs? Message-ID: <AANLkTim9f8LdSib3PU-Vf3JY8Tx-nLV1eOCxcbNz%2BMkV@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110112205804.3ec42ec8.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <AANLkTimMvTxsdRXhxzXwjdTDzQ5U7m7kzVc0orGwxM5U@mail.gmail.com> <4D2DFEAE.9060403@bah.homeip.net> <AANLkTi=bbT7d=FvFHFpWpZgXb_cHgNGaa_ZS%2BSdWxXua@mail.gmail.com> <20110112205804.3ec42ec8.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> # for FILE in /var/log/*; do cat /dev/null > ${FILE}; done
>
> That would be better than my first suggestion. You can exchange
> the part "/var/log/*" for any `find ...` command that specifies
> the intended target(s) of your operation better than the builtin
> shell expansion of the * expression.
>
>
Now that's just beautiful, man :-)
Thanks a lot :-)
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Redd
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