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TRUNCATE(1)		  BSD General Commands Manual		   TRUNCATE(1)

NAME
     truncatetruncate or extend the length of files

SYNOPSIS
     truncate [-c] -s [+|-]size[K|k|M|m|G|g|T|t] file ...
     truncate [-c] -r rfile file ...

DESCRIPTION
     The truncate utility adjusts the length of each regular file given on the
     command-line.

     The following options are available:

     -c	     Do not create files if they do not exist.	The truncate utility
	     does not treat this as an error.  No error messages are displayed
	     and the exit value is not affected.

     -r rfile
	     Truncate or extend files to the length of the file rfile.

     -s [+|-]size[K|k|M|m|G|g|T|t]
	     If the size argument is preceded by a plus sign (+), files will
	     be extended by this number of bytes.  If the size argument is
	     preceded by a dash (-), file lengths will be reduced by no more
	     than this number of bytes, to a minimum length of zero bytes.
	     Otherwise, the size argument specifies an absolute length to
	     which all files should be extended or reduced as appropriate.

	     The size argument may be suffixed with one of K, M, G or T
	     (either upper or lower case) to indicate a multiple of Kilobytes,
	     Megabytes, Gigabytes or Terabytes respectively.

     Exactly one of the -r and -s options must be specified.

     If a file is made smaller, its extra data is lost.	 If a file is made
     larger, it will be extended as if by writing bytes with the value zero.
     If the file does not exist, it is created unless the -c option is speci‐
     fied.

     Note that, while truncating a file causes space on disk to be freed,
     extending a file does not cause space to be allocated.  To extend a file
     and actually allocate the space, it is necessary to explicitly write data
     to it, using (for example) the shell's ‘>>’ redirection syntax, or dd(1).

EXIT STATUS
     The truncate utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.  If
     the operation fails for an argument, truncate will issue a diagnostic and
     continue processing the remaining arguments.

SEE ALSO
     dd(1), touch(1), truncate(2)

STANDARDS
     The truncate utility conforms to no known standards.

HISTORY
     The truncate utility first appeared in FreeBSD 4.2.

AUTHORS
     The truncate utility was written by Sheldon Hearn
     ⟨sheldonh@starjuice.net⟩.

BSD			       December 19, 2006			   BSD
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