truncate a 2gig file ?

[Brad Hards]

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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:20, Peter Barker wrote:
> 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 :-)
In python, something of the form:
>>> myfile = file("foo", "a")
>>> myfile.truncate(4096)

is probably about equivalent, although perhaps a bit more readable :)

Brad

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