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Re: Linux truncate(1) equivalent?

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Subject: Re: Linux truncate(1) equivalent?
From: neitzel%hackett.marshlabs.gaertner.de@localhost (Martin Neitzel)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:43:21 +0200 (CEST)

> Do we have an Ã©quivalent of Linux truncate(1)? It calls truncate(2)
> to resize a file.
>
> I tried dd with seek with no success.

Works for me:

        fortune -l > xx
        dd bs=1 seek=10 if=/dev/null of=xx
        ls -l xx ; od -a xx

                                                        Martin

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