This week, I will show how to truncate files using the truncate() and ftruncate() syscalls. The file system automatically expands a file’s size as more data is appended to it; however, it has no way ...

So we had an issue in our environment where backups failed several nights in a row and log files built up to the point that the drive was down to 6GB free [of 8TB] at the point where I was notified ...

I have a bunch of files that I would like to truncate the file names on. The names are in this format:<BR><BR>My File_050213.mov<BR><BR>What I want to do is rename all the files so that only the text ...