Shell commands for seeing space taken by .log files and truncating them.

gistfile1.sh

# how much space is being taken up by .log files?
find . -regex '.*\.log' -exec du -hc {} +

# recursively clear all .log files in current directory
find . -regex '.*\.log' -exec cp /dev/null {} \;

# view .log files sorted by file size
find . -regex '.*\.log' -print0 | xargs -0 du | sort -gr