Thus spake Greywolf (greywolf@starwolf.com):

> # 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.
> Oh, is this silly "let's emulate linux and incorporate perl into the
> main tree" argument *still* going on?  Give it a rest.  Perl is NOT

I can't see how you come to Perl here.

Utilities such as touch, truncate, expr and various others have all
small functionality to help as much as possible.

Alex

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