Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> Is there a quick way to remove the last 10 bytes from a big honking file?
> 

I have asked myself that a number of times.

Especially since there is a libc function to do it:
  man 2 truncate

Each time I go looking for something called
  truncate
  resize
  chsize

I've been too lazy to write one, it would be pretty simple, eh?
(I think I had one in DOS!)

I usually lose patience and use dd.

With a big file, maybe it would be an incentive to write one.

Or use perl (probably)
  perldoc -f truncate
(but this only shortens)

Regards,
..jim


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