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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details 
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On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 14:37:16 +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:

> I agree with alex that it should create files iff -c (or something)
> is given on the command line, and the default should be NOT to create
> anything.

Cool.  That seems to be agreed all around.

So we've got:

    truncate [-cv] [+|-]size file [...]
	-c Create files as necessary
	-v Warn about attempts to truncate below zero bytes

where + and - turn the size argument into a delta to be applied, rather
than an absolute size.

Any objections to this interface?

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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