truncate – shrink or extend the size of a file to the specified size

A UNIX Command $cat example.text hello $ls -l example.text -rw-r–r– 1 jeffrin jeffrin 6 Jun 21 02:32 example.text $truncate -s 10 example.text $ls -l example.text -rw-r–r– 1 jeffrin jeffrin 10 Jun 21 02:35 example.text $hexdump example.text 0000000 6568 6c6c 0a6f 0000 0000 000000a $cat example.text hello $truncate -s 9 example.text $ls -l example.text -rw-r–r– 1 …