On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:44:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
how about for i in <filelist> do cat /dev/null > $i done HTH -- Weasel http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ PGP/GPG encrypted messages prefered. See my site or finger -l ppalfrad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes means No and No means Yes. Delete all files [Y]?