truncate(1)

💖 truncate — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, this is the page for truncate(1) from the General Commands Manual, and she is that girl. Let's get into it. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

truncate — shrink or extend the size of each file to the specified size. literally her whole personality. 🌸

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

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

that's it. that's the job. she's a size girlie and she's iconic for it 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -o, --io-blocks — treat SIZE as the number of I/O blocks of the file rather than bytes. 🫶 NOT IMPLEMENTED, so don't come for her, she's just telling you how it's supposed to vibe.
• -c, --no-create — do not create files that do not exist. if it's not there, she's not manifesting it for you. 🚫✨
• -r, --reference <RFILE> — base the size of each file on the size of RFILE. matching energies fr fr 👯
• -s, --size <SIZE> — set or adjust the size of each file according to SIZE, which is in bytes unless --io-blocks is specified. the main character option honestly 👑
• -h, --help — print help. she'll explain herself 💬
• -V, --version — print version. the receipts 📜
• <FILE> — the file(s). the ones getting resized. the moment. 🔥

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✨ EXTRA ✨

okay so SIZE is an integer with an optional prefix and optional unit. no cap. 🧚

the available units are K, M, G, T, P, E, Z, and Y, and they work like this:

'KB' => 1000 (kilobytes)
'K' => 1024 (kibibytes)
'MB' => 1000*1000 (megabytes)
'M' => 1024*1024 (mebibytes)
'GB' => 1000*1000*1000 (gigabytes)
'G' => 1024*1024*1024 (gibibytes)

yes the uppercase-only-no-B ones are the 1024 ones. lowercase B means powers of 1000. she said be normal about it 😭

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

so like, + and - and the little math symbols are how you tell her "relative to what's already there" instead of "exactly this". obsessed with the range honestly 🌈

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✨ VERSION ✨

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was truncate from uutils coreutils 0.7.0, living in the General Commands Manual as truncate(1) — mwah, go resize something responsibly, ily 💜🦋🌸