When you really want empty files...

ls | sed -e 's%^%cat /dev/null > %' | bash

• NB: Dangerous.

Comments

27 November 2009Alan Dix

I think that one ranks alongside extreme sports

27 November 2009infopeep

Styles, Rob: When you really want empty files… http://bit.ly/4vGU9f

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29 October 2010Tim

Just write nothing into the file :) for file in `ls -1`; do > $file ; done