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truncate

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- truncate
truncate:tldr:170b5 truncate: Set a size of 10 GB to an existing file, or create a new file with the specified size.

$ truncate --size ${10G} ${filename}

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truncate:tldr:787ca truncate: Extend the file size by 50 MiB, fill with holes (which reads as zero bytes).

$ truncate --size +${50M} ${filename}

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truncate:tldr:7ac89 truncate: Empty the file's content, but do not create the file if it does not exist.

$ truncate --no-create --size 0 ${filename}

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truncate:tldr:a301d truncate: Shrink the file by 2 GiB, by removing data from the end of file.

$ truncate --size -${2G} ${filename}

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truncate:tldr:bdb0b truncate: Empty the file's content.

$ truncate --size 0 ${filename}

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