Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:32:49 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details Message-ID: <6262.962620369@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:14:26 %2B0200." <200007031014.MAA60328@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:14:26 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > By the way, does Alexander's implementation handle negative numbers > as well (meaning the numbers of bytes to strip from the end of the > file)? If not, I'd like to submit a patch for this, as I've found > that feature to be extremely useful (e.g. ``truncate -128 foo.mp3'' to > strip ID3 junk from mp3 files). I plan to patch his version to allow prepending + and - to the size to indicate a delta rather than an absolute size. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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