[NTLUG:Discuss] How do I make all files in a directory of zero length?

[Lance Simmons]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:43:20PM -0500, Fred James wrote:
>
> How do you define "pretty"?
 
I think I meant "short".

 cat /dev/null > *

could be rewritten as

 > *

That's short, but doesn't work.

The best solution so far is: 

 for i in *; do > $i; done

Is there a shorter solution?

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