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diff --git a/man/truncate.1 b/man/truncate.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1d8f24b --- /dev/null +++ b/man/truncate.1 @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.48.5. +.TH TRUNCATE "1" "August 2023" "GNU coreutils 9.4" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +truncate \- shrink or extend the size of a file to the specified size +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B truncate +\fI\,OPTION\/\fR... \fI\,FILE\/\fR... +.SH DESCRIPTION +.\" Add any additional description here +.PP +Shrink or extend the size of each FILE to the specified size +.PP +A FILE argument that does not exist is created. +.PP +If a FILE is larger than the specified size, the extra data is lost. +If a FILE is shorter, it is extended and the sparse extended part (hole) +reads as zero bytes. +.PP +Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. +.TP +\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-no\-create\fR +do not create any files +.TP +\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-io\-blocks\fR +treat SIZE as number of IO blocks instead of bytes +.TP +\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-reference\fR=\fI\,RFILE\/\fR +base size on RFILE +.TP +\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-size\fR=\fI\,SIZE\/\fR +set or adjust the file size by SIZE bytes +.TP +\fB\-\-help\fR +display this help and exit +.TP +\fB\-\-version\fR +output version information and exit +.PP +The SIZE argument is an integer and optional unit (example: 10K is 10*1024). +Units are K,M,G,T,P,E,Z,Y,R,Q (powers of 1024) or KB,MB,... (powers of 1000). +Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on. +.PP +SIZE may also be prefixed by one of the following modifying characters: +\&'+' extend by, '\-' reduce by, '<' at most, '>' at least, +\&'/' round down to multiple of, '%' round up to multiple of. +.SH AUTHOR +Written by Padraig Brady. +.SH "REPORTING BUGS" +GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> +.br +Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> +.SH COPYRIGHT +Copyright \(co 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. +.br +This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. +There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +\fBdd\fP(1), \fBtruncate\fP(2), \fBftruncate\fP(2) +.PP +.br +Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/truncate> +.br +or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) truncate invocation\(aq |