> I wonder if a wrapper around the system trunc(3) call could be > included > into coreutils. It could be a separate command like: > > trunc my_file 234M
Already written, in coreutils 7.0, under the name truncate. You probably need to upgrade; the latest stable version is 7.1. > The consecutive runs of cmddiff > can check different fields of the same traced command. This one is > probably more suitable for moreutils. Jim has mentioned the idea of a contrib directory, where we can guage whether scripts like this have enough users to warrant a rewrite into C and inclusion as a coreutil. -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
