GNU bug report logs - #7463
truncate

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Rupert Bruce <rbruce <at> nearshore.biz>

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:39:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Rupert Bruce <rbruce <at> nearshore.biz>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: truncate
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:41:33 -0500

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"

FYI, one of the first changes I make on a new installation is to alias 
truncate in .bashrc:
alias ll='ls -l'
alias la='ls -A'
alias truncate='truncate --size 0'
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