[PLUG] One-liners to empty all files in a directory?

[Jameson Williams]

I haven't been able to get this one yet.

Challenge: A one-line statement (pipes okay, but explicit loops not) 
that empties all found files (as for debugging with /var/log, perse).

This is close, but has a loop:

     find -type f | while read file; do :>$file; done

This seems like it might work, but doesn't:

     find -type f -exec cat /dev/null \> {} \;

Any ideas?

Jameson
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