On Tuesday 26 February 2008 10:08, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
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