[oclug] find

[Zac Sprackett]

* Francis J. A. Pinteric wrote:
> Just a question. Why do you want to do this? I read this as your desire
> to release the storage of all the files in a directory without removing
> the names.
> 
> Do you have something against "rm *"?

rm * is bad if you're working with something like a logfile.  The
application still holds an open filehandle to the deleted file and
subsequent log messages can be lost.  It is less disruptive to truncate
in place through a simple shell redirect as suggested in the original
question...

for I in *; do
	>${I}
done

-z
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