Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you don't mind truncating first, how about this? > > true > /var/spool/whatever/foo > dd bs=1 seek=2G of=/var/spool/whatever/foo < /dev/null
Also, the latter command works even if the former command is omitted. That is, by itself, that invocation of dd resizes /var/spool/whatever/foo to 2 GiB, discarding or extending the file as needed, which is what the original request asked for. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
