[ On Sunday, July 23, 2000 at 19:50:54 (-0400), John Hawkinson wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Suggestion: inclusion of the truncate(1) utility into the tree 
>
> dd if=/dev/null of=file-to-truncate seek=howevermuchtotruncate

Wow!  You learn something every day I guess!

And that's been there since the 4.3BSD days (i.e. it's in net2).

And it's in POSIX 1003.2 too, but not, at least according to the
manuals, in any AT&T UNIX up to SysVr4.2.

So, is there anything that truncate(1) can do that dd(1) cannot?

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