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syntax: markdown
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tags: [tldr, common]
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source: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr.git
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---
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# truncate
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> Shrink or extend the size of a file to the specified size.
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> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/truncate>.
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- Set a size of 10 GB to an existing file, or create a new file with the specified size:
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`truncate --size 10G {{path/to/file}}`
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- Extend the file size by 50 MiB, fill with holes (which reads as zero bytes):
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`truncate --size +50M {{path/to/file}}`
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- Shrink the file by 2 GiB, by removing data from the end of file:
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`truncate --size -2G {{path/to/file}}`
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- Empty the file's content:
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`truncate --size 0 {{path/to/file}}`
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- Empty the file's content, but do not create the file if it does not exist:
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`truncate --no-create --size 0 {{path/to/file}}`
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