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Pádraig, thanks for this.
I know that I, at least, would have benefitted from such a tool while
testing certain filesize-related issues for Wget. I wrote a quick
ten-liner for the purpose on those occasions, but of course it's great
to have a proper t
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Take 2 attached
>
> Thanks!
> I've looked through the tests (thanks for writing so many!)
> marked a few things with FIXME comments, fixed some "exit..." lines
> (that matters for portability wrt traps),
BTW, I'
Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Take 2 attached
Thanks!
I've looked through the tests (thanks for writing so many!)
marked a few things with FIXME comments, fixed some "exit..." lines
(that matters for portability wrt traps), and adjusted nit-picky
comment syntax ;-)
Here are a few mor
Take 2 attached
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From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:11:25 +
Subject: [PATCH] Add new program: truncate
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Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] Add new program: truncate
Nice!
Thanks for doing all that.
Here's a first pass:
- fix a typo s/tound/round/ : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] => tound up to multiple of
- please indent using only spaces (no TABs) and add this at the end of
Proposed truncate command attached
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From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:03:31 +
Subject: [PATCH] Add new program: truncate
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Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 February 2008 21:03, Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> That depends on your definition of "works".
>>> If you don't mind retaining the first 2GiB of content in
>>> a preexisting output file, then it works fine. But the initial
>>> truncation is requi
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 21:03, Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That depends on your definition of "works".
> > If you don't mind retaining the first 2GiB of content in
> > a preexisting output file, then it works fine. But the initial
> > truncation is required if you want to be s
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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 work
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 comma
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,
On Monday 25 February 2008 22:11, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > One non-obvious feature request that I have is for a truncate on a
> > non-existant file to create it (similar to the way "touch" is commonly
> > used to create files).
>
> The obvious question is then "Why?"
One specifi
On Monday 25 February 2008 21:29, Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Russell if you want to push code to me it's fine,
> but I was going to work on this tool anyway.
I don't have any code (yet). If you are going to work on it then I would be
more than happy to leave it to you. I would b
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 invocat
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 25 February 2008 22:11, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > One non-obvious feature request that I have is for a truncate on a
>> > non-existant file to create it (similar to the way "touch" is commonly
>> > used to create files).
>>
>>
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 25 February 2008 21:29, Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Russell if you want to push code to me it's fine,
>> but I was going to work on this tool anyway.
>
> I don't have any code (yet). If you are going to work on it then I would be
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If I have a file that is 2G in size but wish to discard the last 1G of data
>> then there seems to be no program available to do this.
>>
>> I think it would be ideal to have a program as part of coreutils that allows
>> you to resiz
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I have a file that is 2G in size but wish to discard the last 1G of data
> then there seems to be no program available to do this.
>
> I think it would be ideal to have a program as part of coreutils that allows
> you to resize a file. If the new lengt
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