Stupid things you end up writing when you worry about filling disk spaces at 3 AM in the morning of the day right before your exams begin. The following will delete all your log files in a safe manner, by simply rewriting them to null.
cd /var/log for file in `find .` do if [ -f $file ]; then cat /dev/null > $file fi done
Suggest better methods if known, and thank you!
Optionally, get in there and delete those now-stagnant .gz files with the following:
find /var/log -name "*.gz" | xargs rm
P.s. So much for BS code highlight plugins printing angled brackets in HTML notations when asked to do bash.
