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Subject: Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?
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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 :-)

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