Subject: Re: Suggestion: inclusion of the truncate(1) utility into the tree
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, tech@openbsd.org>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/24/2000 18:47:57
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 09:17:34AM +0900, ITOH Yasufumi wrote:
> In article <20000722013309.801A490@proven.weird.com>
> woods@weird.com writes:
>
> > Sorry but no, you cannot. It is not possible to do from the shell, awk,
> > dd, cat, or whatever, what truncate(2) and ftruncate(2) do, at least not
> > without building a truncate() call into the tool of your choice. You
>
> dd of=file_to_truncate bs=1 seek=new_size count=1 </dev/null
Ha! yasufumi++