On Thu 10 May 2007 09:23:52 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > I feel I should know this, but nothing comes to mind. I need to truncate a > 6.5G file to the first 2G of the file. The remainder can be thrown away.
> man [2|3p] truncate seems to reveal a c function, but I cannot find a > command line equivalent. My scriptutils package contains truncate.pl, which is handy for that sort of job and which contains a roundabout-way interface to said C function. It is also useful for creating empty sparse files of any size (needed e.g. for loop-device filesystem creation). Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
