I want to trim all files in a directory to 0 bytes....

[pap]

How do I do the same. I have 100 files in a directory and I want to trim it to zero bytes each. Please let me know if any script is needed for that.

-pap

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

asuming no drectories:

for file in *
do
> $file
done

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Pap,

Do the following

for i in /dir_name
do
> $i
done

HTH,
Jeff

[David Burgess]

How about :-

for file in $(ls -1)
do
cat /dev/null > $file
done

Regards,

Dave.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Pap


#!/usr/bin/ksh

for i in /dirname
do
> $i
done


all the best.


Manoj Srivastava

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

And the perl way

perl -e 'for(<*>){truncate$_,0}'

or even shorter with newer perls

perl -e 'truncate$_,0 for<*>'

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Pap:

Assuming that there might be subdirectories and/or pipes subordinate to your directory:

# cd /dir
# for X in `ls -l | awk '/^-/ {print $9}'`
> do
> cat /dev/null > $X
> done

Regards!

...JRF...