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Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:11:58 +0100 |
Russell Coker <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Monday 25 February 2008 21:29, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Russell if you want to push code to me it's fine,
>> but I was going to work on this tool anyway.
>
> I don't have any code (yet). If you are going to work on it then I would be
> more than happy to leave it to you. I would be very interested in testing
> it, but my coding time is unfortunately quite limited at the moment and I'd
> prefer to focus on the things that don't have someone else about to work on
> them.
>
> 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?"
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Jim Meyering, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Pádraig Brady, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Russell Coker, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Russell Coker, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Jim Meyering, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Paul Eggert, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Russell Coker, 2008/02/25
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Jim Meyering, 2008/02/26
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Pádraig Brady, 2008/02/26
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Russell Coker, 2008/02/26
- Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files, Pádraig Brady, 2008/02/26