On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 14:23:51 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 6/29/2013 12:19 PM, Tixy wrote:
>> 
>> truncate -s %80 FILENAME
>> 
>> Will pad with zero's to round size up to a multiple of 80.
> 
> That'll teach me to read all posts before replying.  Question:
> 
> Does this append ASCII zeros to the end of the file, or nulls?  Stephen
> asked for nulls, and you state "zero's" above.

It appends hex zeros (0x00), or nulls.  Also known as ^@ characters.
The ASCII zero is 0x30.

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