truncate

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Shrink or extend the size of a file to the specified size.

Options (2)

-s, --sizeboolean

Set a size of 10 GB to an existing file, or create a new file with the specified size

Example: truncate {{[-s|--size]}} 10G {{path/to/file}}

-c, --no-createboolean

Empty the file's content, but do not create the file if it does not exist

Example: truncate {{[-s|--size]}} 0 {{[-c|--no-create]}} {{path/to/file}}

Set a size of 10 GB to an existing file, or create a new file with the specified size

truncate [-s|--size] 10G path/to/file

Extend the file size by 50 MiB, fill with holes (which reads as zero bytes)

truncate [-s|--size] +50M path/to/file

Shrink the file by 2 GiB, by removing data from the end of file

truncate [-s|--size] -2G path/to/file

Empty the file's content

truncate [-s|--size] 0 path/to/file

Empty the file's content, but do not create the file if it does not exist

truncate [-s|--size] 0 [-c|--no-create] path/to/file