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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting I need to delete the content out of a number of logs Post 41160 by google on Tuesday 30th of September 2003 09:28:52 AM
Old 09-30-2003
If you want the remove the contents of the logs without removing the file itself then echo a blank to the log, but dont append to the log, overwrite the log instead. This will overwrite all contents of the log with a blank space. The result is an empty log.

for $LOG in ` ls -1 /log-path/*.trc`
do
echo "" > $LOG
done

Last edited by google; 09-30-2003 at 11:06 AM..
 

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