[oclug] find

[Mike Hoye]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 06:10:18PM -0400, Bob Lockie wrote:
> On 04/22/04 17:05 Francis J. A. Pinteric spoke:
> >Do you have something against "rm *"?
> 
> I need the file names but not the content.

Wierd. 

for i in `ls`; do rm -f $i; echo {} > $i; done

Alternatively, if you want to save those names to a file somewhere, you could do

for i in `ls`; do rm -f $i; echo $i >> a_file_somewhere; done


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