On Monday 25 February 2008 22:11, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One non-obvious feature request that I have is for a truncate on a > > non-existant file to create it (similar to the way "touch" is commonly > > used to create files). > > The obvious question is then "Why?"
One specific case is where I want a large sparse file to exist - which may have been created previously. So "truncate 2g /var/spool/whatever/foo" would make that file exist and be 2g in size regardless of whether it was there before. Of course writing shell code to check for the existence of a file is not difficult, but the people who wrote touch(1) seemed to think this is a good idea. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
