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The following options are available:
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Do not create files if they do not exist. The truncate utility does not treat this as an error. No error messages are displayed and the exit value is not affected. | |
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Truncate or extend files to the length of the file rfile. | |
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[+|-|%|/]size[K|k|M|m|G|g|T|t]If the
size
argument is preceded by a plus sign
( +),
files will be extended by this number of bytes.
If the
size
argument is preceded by a dash
( -),
file lengths will be reduced by no more than this number of bytes,
to a minimum length of zero bytes.
If the
size
argument is preceded by a percent sign
( %),
files will be round up to a multiple of this number of bytes.
If the
size
argument is preceded by a slash sign
( /),
files will be round down to a multiple of this number of bytes,
to a minimum length of zero bytes.
Otherwise, the
size
argument specifies an absolute length to which all files
should be extended or reduced as appropriate.
The size argument may be suffixed with one of K, M, G or T (either upper or lower case) to indicate a multiple of Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes or Terabytes respectively. | |
Exactly one of the
If a file is made smaller, its extra data is lost.
If a file is made larger,
it will be extended as if by writing bytes with the value zero.
If the file does not exist,
it is created unless the
Note that, while truncating a file causes space on disk to be freed, extending a file does not cause space to be allocated. To extend a file and actually allocate the space, it is necessary to explicitly write data to it, using (for example) the shell's ‘>>’ redirection syntax, or dd(1).
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