On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:09:05 +0000, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Not if you read the man page:
> dd if=/dev/null of=totruncate bs=1 seek=positiontotruncate
Oh! You are right, this works. But unfortunatly this behavior is not
explained clearly in my manpage :-( Only a flag "notrunc" is mentioned:
notrunc
do not truncate the output file
I wasn't aware that this implies that there must be a case in which the
file is truncated. Thanks for the hint!
Michael
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