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Shrink or extend the size of each file to the specified size.

Synopsis

truncate [-o|--io-blocks] [-c|--no-create] [-r|--reference] [-s|--size] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] <FILE>

Description

Shrink or extend the size of each file to the specified size.

Options

-o,  --io-blocks

treat SIZE as the number of I/O blocks of the file rather than bytes (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

-c,  --no-create

do not create files that do not exist

-r,  --reference <RFILE>

base the size of each file on the size of RFILE

-s,  --size <SIZE>

set or adjust the size of each file according to SIZE, which is in bytes unless --io-blocks is specified

-h,  --help

Print help

-V,  --version

Print version

<FILE>

Extra

SIZE is an integer with an optional prefix and optional unit. The available units (K, M, G, T, P, E, Z, and Y) use the following format:
   'KB' => 1000 (kilobytes)
   'K' => 1024 (kibibytes)
   'MB' => 1000*1000 (megabytes)
   'M' => 1024*1024 (mebibytes)
   'GB' => 1000*1000*1000 (gigabytes)
   'G' => 1024*1024*1024 (gibibytes) SIZE may also be prefixed by one of the following to adjust the size of each file based on its current size:
   '+' => extend by
   '-' => reduce by
   '<' => at most
   '>' => at least
   '/' => round down to multiple of
   '%' => round up to multiple of

Version

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

Info

truncate (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0