On 06/22/2013 09:42 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > I thought it would do the obvious, like touch does. > > > NAME > touch - change file timestamps > > SYNOPSIS > touch [OPTION]... FILE... > > DESCRIPTION > Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current > time. > > A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty, unless -c or -h > is supplied. > > > > NAME > truncate - shrink or extend the size of a file to the specified size > > SYNOPSIS > truncate OPTION... FILE... > > DESCRIPTION > Shrink or extend the size of each FILE to the specified size > > A FILE argument that does not exist is created. > > > > Who would have guessed that for some reason an argument is required, > I don't see why > $ truncate FILE > cannot just work too. > You know, to truncate the file, to zero bytes. > But hey I'm not a pro.
I remember discussing the interface at the time. The thinking was that since data was destroyed here, an explicit -s0 was required to avoid typos like: truncate - s1M file Behaving like you suggest would create '-' and 's1M' and truncate 'file' without warning. cheers, Pádraig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
