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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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2025-01-18 18:45:33 +05:30
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> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/truncate-invocation.html>.
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2018-07-15 17:24:57 +08:00
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2021-05-20 16:13:41 -04:00
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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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2018-07-15 17:24:57 +08:00
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2025-03-26 02:30:50 +02:00
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`truncate {{[-s|--size]}} 10G {{path/to/file}}`
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2018-07-15 17:24:57 +08:00
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2021-08-15 19:59:09 +02:00
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- Extend the file size by 50 MiB, fill with holes (which reads as zero bytes):
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2018-07-15 17:24:57 +08:00
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2025-03-26 02:30:50 +02:00
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`truncate {{[-s|--size]}} +50M {{path/to/file}}`
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2018-07-15 17:24:57 +08:00
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2021-08-15 19:59:09 +02:00
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- Shrink the file by 2 GiB, by removing data from the end of file:
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2018-07-15 17:24:57 +08:00
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2025-03-26 02:30:50 +02:00
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`truncate {{[-s|--size]}} -2G {{path/to/file}}`
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2019-12-30 14:41:06 +02:00
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- Empty the file's content:
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2025-03-26 02:30:50 +02:00
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`truncate {{[-s|--size]}} 0 {{path/to/file}}`
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2021-05-25 04:48:17 +10:00
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- Empty the file's content, but do not create the file if it does not exist:
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2025-03-26 02:30:50 +02:00
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`truncate {{[-c|--no-create]}} {{[-s|--size]}} 0 {{path/to/file}}`
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