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Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files
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Russell Coker |
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Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:28:23 +1100 |
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On Tuesday 26 February 2008 10:08, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> > dd bs=1 seek=2G of=/var/spool/whatever/foo < /dev/null
>
> Also, the latter command works even if the former command is omitted.
> That is, by itself, that invocation of dd resizes
> /var/spool/whatever/foo to 2 GiB, discarding or extending the file as
> needed, which is what the original request asked for.
Yes, that does it.
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Jim Meyering, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Pádraig Brady, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Russell Coker, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Jim Meyering, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Russell Coker, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Jim Meyering, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Paul Eggert, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files,
Russell Coker <=
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Jim Meyering, 2008/02/26
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Pádraig Brady, 2008/02/26
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Russell Coker, 2008/02/26
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Pádraig Brady, 2008/02/26