find prints wrong file size for files >2GB
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Mon Dec 6 12:24:00 GMT 2004
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> Now wait a minute; that was *my* testcase! Oh, well.
> I hearby place that code in the public domain; retroactively for
> Jacek Trzmiel's benefit.
>
> Would a truncate.exe be welcome in one of the cygwin packages? I
> kind of thought there was one on some unixes but a search didn't
> turn up anything.
There's no need for a special purpose program to do this. 'dd' has this
capability among many others:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=0 seek=2G of=filename
Brian
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