I think that would work in my specific use case.
I can think of other use cases that it probably wouldn't, but I'm not going
to worry
about those right now.  :-)

Thanks!
-l




On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:07 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
wrote:

> On Jun 24 2020, L A Walsh wrote:
>
> > A second option would be to truncate the file to the last position
> > written.
>
> $ truncate -r $src $dest
>
> Andreas.
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