truncate a 2gig file ?

[Peter Barker]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Simon Burton wrote:

> I have a 2gig file (leunig's interview thismorning on ABC classic fm)
> that i only need the first 700mb of, i haven't the disk space to
> dd it, i'm looking to just chop off the last 1.3gig or so.

perl -e 'truncate "foo", 4096 or die qq%Bugger: \$!%';

where foo is your file, 4096 is 1.3G :-)

> Any commands to do this? Can clib do this?

Oddly, no, not that I've come across in the standard toolkit.

> Also i have wanted to zero length a file in the past,
> ie. just keeping the filename....

In various shells: ">filename"

> Simon Burton.

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