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truncate

See the current Perl documentation for truncate.

Here is our local, out-dated (pre-5.6) version:


truncate - shorten a file



truncate FILEHANDLE,LENGTH

truncate EXPR,LENGTH



Truncates the file opened on FILEHANDLE, or named by EXPR, to the specified length. Produces a fatal error if truncate isn't implemented on your system. Returns TRUE if successful, the undefined value otherwise.