Linux truncate(1) equivalent?

[Emmanuel Dreyfus]

Hi

Do we have an équivalent of Linux truncate(1)? It calls truncate(2)
to resize a file.

I tried dd with seek with no success.

[Greg Troxel]

Do we have an équivalent of Linux truncate(1)? It calls truncate(2)
to resize a file.
I tried dd with seek with no success.

see pkgsrc/sysutils/coreutils, whose PLIST has

bin/gtruncate

[Martin Neitzel]

Do we have an équivalent of Linux truncate(1)? It calls truncate(2)
to resize a file.
I tried dd with seek with no success.

Works for me:

fortune -l > xx
dd bs=1 seek=10 if=/dev/null of=xx
ls -l xx ; od -a xx

Martin

[Emmanuel Dreyfus]

Post by Martin Neitzel
fortune -l > xx
dd bs=1 seek=10 if=/dev/null of=xx
ls -l xx ; od -a xx

Indeed that one works. I was close to it but not enough.