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Date:      Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:10:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: truncate(1) implementation details 
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007031210090.13831-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <32476.962635052@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>

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On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> 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?

Looks good :)

Jamie



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