Thus spake John Hawkinson (jhawk@MIT.EDU):

> | FreeBSD recently imported a truncate(1) utility into their
> | src-tree, which is a command-line frontend to truncate(2).
> Why is not ``dd'' sufficient?

It is, for some cases.
However, truncate -r /foo/bar /path/baz
or       truncate -s +1MB /somefile

become ugly hacks with shell scripts and dd.

Alex
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