Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 03:50:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details Message-ID: <200007040150.DAA83143@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <8jpso8$2dds$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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In list.freebsd-arch Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:41:57 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Great! I assume it also supports the usual suffixes ("K"
> > Kbyte, "M" Mbyte etc.), right?
>
> No. Does yours?
Yes. And an -r option to use the size of another file as a
reference (similar to the -r option of touch(1)).
> Is your source up for grabs?
Sure: http://www.fromme.com/truncate/
I just hacked together a small manpage, but I'm not a native
English speaker, so it probably needs a bit of editing.
Regards
Oliver
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