> I need a utility that will take a list of files using standard wildcards
> and empty their contents, but not deleting them. Has anyone stumbled on
> something like this? Thanks a bunch.
Try the shell command echo:
echo -n '' > file
This redirect the empty string into file. The option -n avoids
the default printed newline, so the file is really empty.
for x in *.*
do
echo -n '' > $x
done
does the trick for several files. Instead of *.* use the pattern you like.
For details:
man bash
or the manpage of your favorite shell.
I hope you wanted not to get a more sophisticated utility.
Armin
