GNU bug report logs - #7463
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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: Erik Auerswald <auerswal <at> unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
To: Rupert Bruce <rbruce <at> nearshore.biz>
Cc: 7463 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7463: truncate
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:21:08 +0100

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:41:33AM -0500, Rupert Bruce wrote:
> 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"

That is caused by your shell, see the "nullglob" option (at least for
bash).

Erik
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