Re: Bug#467378: coreutils: Please include a program to truncate files

[Jim Meyering]

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?"