[oclug] find

[Milan Budimirovic]

Bob Lockie wrote:

> I want to "echo > *" to each file in a directory.
>
> I tried:
> find . -name \* -exec "echo > {}" \;
> but that gives me a:
> find: echo > ./each_file: No such file or directory
>

I'm not sure what you're trying to do here.

  echo > *

redirects STDIN to all files that match "*" (basically all files that 
don't begin with a ".").

I don't think that bash or any UNIX-like shell will allow you to 
redirect to "*". Try it from the command prompt.