NAME

truncate - Shrink or extend the size of each file to the specified size.

SYNOPSIS

truncate [-o|--io-blocks] [-c|--no-create] [-r|--reference] [-s|--size] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] <FILE>

DESCRIPTION

Shrink or extend the size of each file to the specified size.

OPTIONS

-o, --io-blocks

treat SIZE as the number of I/O blocks of the file rather than bytes (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

-c, --no-create

do not create files that do not exist

-r, --reference <RFILE>

base the size of each file on the size of RFILE

-s, --size <SIZE>

set or adjust the size of each file according to SIZE, which is in bytes unless --io-blocks is specified

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

<FILE>

EXTRA

SIZE is an integer with an optional prefix and optional unit. The available units (K, M, G, T, P, E, Z, and Y) use the following format:
'KB' => 1000 (kilobytes)
'K' => 1024 (kibibytes)
'MB' => 1000*1000 (megabytes)
'M' => 1024*1024 (mebibytes)
'GB' => 1000*1000*1000 (gigabytes)
'G' => 1024*1024*1024 (gibibytes) SIZE may also be prefixed by one of the following to adjust the size of each file based on its current size:
'+' => extend by
'-' => reduce by
'<' => at most
'>' => at least
'/' => round down to multiple of
'%' => round up to multiple of

VERSION

v(uutils coreutils) 0.5.0