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bug#7463: truncate
From: |
Erik Auerswald |
Subject: |
bug#7463: truncate |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:21:08 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:41:33AM -0500, Rupert Bruce wrote:
> truncate (GNU coreutils) 7.4
>
> Unexpected behavior:
>
> $ ls -l
> total 0
> $ truncate --size 0 *.log
> $ ls
> *.log
>
> I would expect "truncate --size 0 *.log" to truncate any files ending
> with ".log"; instead I get a new file called "*.log"
That is caused by your shell, see the "nullglob" option (at least for
bash).
Erik
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