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[coreutils] default behavior to truncate
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wayana |
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[coreutils] default behavior to truncate |
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Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:10:51 +0100 |
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Hi,
I'm wondering why truncate requires a "mandatory option" (-r or -s) to work.
Usually, options modify a default behavior and mandatory informations
are provided as arguments.
Since I'm almost always using truncate to empty files, I suggest the
default behavior of truncate to
be "shrink the size to 0" (i.e. truncate -s 0)
Sebastien
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