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and subject line Bug#467378: Fixed by adding a 'truncate' program
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regarding coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files
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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.3
Severity: wishlist
If I have a file that is 2G in size but wish to discard the last 1G of data
then there seems to be no program available to do this.
I think it would be ideal to have a program as part of coreutils that allows
you to resize a file. If the new length is longer than the old length then
it would either write zeros to the end or extend the file (with a hole)
via the truncate() system call according to the wish of the user. If the new
length is shorter then it would just call truncate().
I would be happy to contribute the code for this. This will require some
discussion with upstream, but it seemed best to start the discussion here.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 2.0.15-2.etch1 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 7.1-1
This bug [1] has been fixed upstream [2] since version 7.0, and hence in
Debian since version 7.1-1.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/467378
[2]
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=75e0047c4b916393b6be3cb985c4c4d4a2d1a836
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Benoît Knecht
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