-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Pádraig Brady on 12/30/2008 2:46 AM: >> Usage: truncate [OPTION]... [FILE]... > > Is supporting stdin a useful enhancement? > Maybe if you can get the shell to open > different files based on some condition, > though again that seems a little contrived.
if cond ; then foo=file1 else foo=file2 fi truncate -s0 <$foo - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklaG2IACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBkhwCgkVAbg/b5mkkbNlembiDzpgeA tdUAoL6Kzb/4DqubvAOFgABV1RdeI1w3 =mkaW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
