Nullifying the contents of directory

[Trng]

Hi,

i hv a diretcory called log under /var/adm .log contains multiple log files.is there any command to nullifying the contents of entire directory,rather than nullifying one by one file under log.my requirement is to nullify all files under log directory.


rgds

[Patrick Wallek]

The easiest thing I can think of is:

cd /var/adm/log
for FILE in $(ls -1)
do
> ${FILE}
done

Before you run that you should do:

for FILE in $(ls -1)
do
echo ${FILE}
done

To make sure you are doing only the files you want.

Something like:

> *

****MIGHT**** work, but it could be risky.

[john D_3]

for i in `ls /var/adm/*.log
do
> $i #[ It is > sign]
done

[Bill Hassell]

It is easy to nullify the files but not a good idea until you have examined the logs. Many of them will contain error messages, some of which may be critical for your system. These logs are the only way to check the health of your system.

What is more useful is to scan the logs with something like grep looking for errors, warnings and failures, then copy the logs to another location and compress them to save space. Then you can nullify the logs.

[Trng]

Thanks for the replies.