NAME

truncate - truncate files to a specified length  

SYNTAX

truncate -s integer <filename>  

OPTIONS

-s number specify the new file length. If the new length is smaller than the current filelength data is lost. If the new length is greater the file is padded with 0. You can specify a magnitude character to ease large numbers:

b or B size is bytes.

k size is 1000 bytes.

K size is 1024 bytes.

m size is 10^6 bytes.

M size is 1024^2 bytes.

g size is 10^9 bytes.

G size is 1024^3 bytes.

EXAMPLES

To shrink a file to 10 bytes:

truncate -s 10 /tmp/foo

To enlarge or shrink a file to 345 Megabytes:

truncate -s 345M /tmp/foo  

AUTHORS

Dirk Jagdmann <doj@cubic.org>