On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:04, you wrote: > Thanks, but both split and dd can only copy the first (or more) part(s) of > a file to a new file. Copying the start of the file is trivial, but > requires disk space and a lot of time. Truncating it in place is what I'm > after.
man 2 truncate System call, You'll have to write a trivial C program to call the kernel function. Surprisingly, nothing in man(1). -- C. S.
